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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|discussion=<p><i>Betula nana </i>subsp.<i> nana</i> 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.</p>
 
|discussion=<p><i>Betula nana </i>subsp.<i> nana</i> 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.</p>
 
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|subfamily=Betulaceae subfam. Betuloideae
 
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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

V3 763-distribution-map.gif

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.