Draba corymbosa |
Draba simmonsii |
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Baffin bay Draba, Baffin bay whitlow-grass, flat-top Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); caudex branched (with persistent leaves or leaf remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. | Perennials; caudex branched (with persistent leaf bases and petioles); scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, (0.05–)0.2–0.8(–1.5) dm, pubescent throughout, trichomes simple and 2-rayed, 0.4–1 mm, with 3–5-rayed ones, 0.05–0.4 mm, (sometimes trichomes mostly simple). |
unbranched, (0.15–)0.3–1.1(–1.3) dm, often pubescent throughout, sometimes sparsely pubescent distally, trichomes stalked, 2–4-rayed, and fewer, simple ones, 0.1–0.3(–0.6) mm. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes often course, simple, 0.4–1.3 mm); blade oblanceolate to obovate, 0.6–1.8 cm × 1.5–5 mm, margins entire, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, 2–6-rayed trichomes, 0.2–0.6 mm, adaxially with primarily simple and stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, to 1.1 mm, with 3–5-rayed ones, 0.2–0.4 mm. |
(not imbricate); rosulate; petiolate; petiole (base somewhat thickened), margin ciliate, (trichomes simple, 0.5–1 mm); blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 0.5–1.6 cm × 2–5 mm, margins entire (apex subacute to obtuse), surfaces pubescent throughout or glabrous adaxially, with simple and stalked, 2–4(–6)-rayed, stellate to subdendritic trichomes. |
Cauline leaves | 0. |
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Racemes | 2–9(–12)-flowered, ebracteate, (corymbose), slightly elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, pubescent as stem. |
(2–)4–10(–14)-flowered, ebracteate, slightly elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous (straight), pubescent as stem. |
Flowers | sepals (grayish green), broadly ovate, 2.2–3 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple, to 1 mm, sometimes with stalked, smaller, 2–4-rayed ones); petals (broadly patent), yellow, obovate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.3–0.4 mm. |
sepals (purplish green), oblong, (2.5–)2.8–3.5(–3.8) mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and sometimes short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals pale yellow, narrowly obovate, (sides non-parallel), (3.5–)3.8–5.5(–5.8) × (2.5–)2.8–4(–4.6) mm, (emarginate); anthers ovate, ca. 0.5 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved upward, 4–11(–16) mm, pubescent, trichomes simple and 2–4-rayed. |
divaricate, straight, 2.5–10 mm, pubescent as stem. |
Fruits | oblong or ovate, plane, flattened, 6–12 × 3.5–5.5 mm; valves pubescent or puberulent, trichomes simple, 0.1–0.4 mm, (sometimes with short-stalked, 2- or 3-rayed ones); ovules 12–24 per ovary; style 0.6–1 mm (stigma distinctly wider than style). |
lanceolate, plane, slightly flattened, 5.5–9(–11) × 2.3–3.8 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple, sometimes with fewer, 2-rayed ones, 0.1–0.3 mm; ovules 16–24(–28) per ovary; style 0.1–0.3 mm (stigma as wide as style). |
Seeds | (brown), ovoid, 1–1.3 × 0.6–0.9 mm. |
(dark brown), oblong-ovate, 1–1.3 × 0.7–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 128, 144. |
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Draba corymbosa |
Draba simmonsii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering late Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Moist tundra, among calcareous or dolomitic rocks, gravel beaches, silt and clay terraces | Dry open ground, open patches in meadows or heath vegetation, outwash plains |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; BC; NT; NU; YT; Greenland; Europe (Norway, n Russia); e Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia) |
NT; NU |
Discussion | Draba corymbosa, which is 16-ploid or 18-ploid with x = 8, is an extremely variable species of polyphyletic, allopolyploid origin. Most individuals appear to have decaploid D. alpina (2n = 80) in their parentage, but the other genomes are provided by hexaploid (2n = 48) and octoploid (2n = 64) species (C. Brochmann et al. 1993). O. E. Schulz reduced D. corymbosa to a variety of D. alpina; R. C. Rollins (1993) treated it as a distinct species. Draba corymbosa is distinguished from D. alpina by having pubescent or puberulent (versus glabrous or glabrescent) fruits, corymbose (versus usually elongated) fruiting racemes, and abaxial leaf blade surfaces always lacking (versus usually with some) simple trichomes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 301. | FNA vol. 7, p. 337. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba | Brassicaceae > tribe Arabideae > Draba |
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Synonyms | D. alpina var. bellii, D. alpina var. corymbosa, D. barbata, D. bellii, D. kjellmanii, D. macrocarpa, D. vestita | D. alpina var. gracilescens |
Name authority | R. Brown ex de Candolle: Syst. Nat. 2: 343. (1821) | Elven & Al-Shehbaz: Novon 18: 326. (2008) |
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