Difference between revisions of "Betula nana subsp. nana"

Common names: Arctic dwarf birch
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
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(Replaced N.W.T. with Nunavut in distribution; treatment was published before Nunavut split from N.W.T. and taxon does not occur in N.W.T.)
 
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="shrub growth form;shrub orientation;shrub orientation;shrub orientation;shrub orientation;shrub some measurement"><b>Shrubs,</b> procumbent, widely spreading, or upright, to 1 m.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bark coloration"><b>Bark </b>dark-brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="twig pubescence;twig reflectance;heavy coating;gland size;gland pubescence or relief;gland coating"><b>Twigs </b>sparsely to densely pubescent, dull, without heavy resinous coating, without large, warty, resinous glands.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade length;leaf-blade width;base shape;base shape;base shape;base shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade broadly orbiculate or obovate-orbiculate to reniform, 0.8–1.5 × 0.8–2 cm, base rounded or cuneate to nearly cordate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="surface pubescence;surface pubescence;surface pubescence">surfaces abaxially sparsely pubescent to glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="infructescence length;infructescence width"><b>Infructescences </b>0.5–1.5 × 0.4–1 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="scale pubescence">scales glabrous, lobes diverging distal to middle, ascending, about equal in length.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="lobe position;lobe position;lobe position;lobe position;lobe orientation;lobe length;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 28.</span><!--
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|elevation=0–600 m
 
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Latest revision as of 17:38, 24 September 2021

Shrubs, procumbent, widely spreading, or upright, to 1 m. Bark dark brown. Twigs sparsely to densely pubescent, dull, without heavy resinous coating, without large, warty, resinous glands. Leaf blade broadly orbiculate or obovate-orbiculate to reniform, 0.8–1.5 × 0.8–2 cm, base rounded or cuneate to nearly cordate; surfaces abaxially sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Infructescences 0.5–1.5 × 0.4–1 cm; scales glabrous, lobes diverging distal to middle, ascending, about equal in length. 2n = 28.


Phenology: Flowering late spring.
Habitat: Tundra, open rocky barrens, and scrubs, in Europe subalpine mountain moors
Elevation: 0–600 m

Distribution

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Greenland, Nunavut, n Europe.

Discussion

Betula nana subsp. nana occurs in both eastern and western Greenland at latitudes north of 63 degrees. In Europe, the range of this subspecies extends across the subarctic zone and southward in the Alps and other ranges.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.