Micranthes spicata |
Micranthes razshivinii |
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large-petal saxifrage, razshivin's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or tufted, short, thick-rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or in clusters, rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole rounded, 4–15 cm; blade round, ovate, or reniform, 3–15 cm, thin, base cordate, margins serrate to dentate, ciliate, surfaces hairy to glabrate. |
basal; petiole ± distinct to indistinct, flattened, (0.3–)0.5–3 cm; blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, sometimes ± narrowly obovate, (0.5–)0.9–3.5 cm, ± fleshy, base ± attenuate to cuneate, margins (3–)5–7(–9)-toothed in distal 1/2 (teeth 0.5 mm), sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 15+-flowered, congested, spikelike thyrses, 15–50(–70) cm, tangled, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
(2–)4–16-flowered, open, racemiform, sometimes paniculiform thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, 3–15.5(–17 in fruit) cm, glabrous; (bracts reduced). |
Flowers | sepals reflexed, oblong to ovate; petals cream to yellowish, not spotted, oblong, not clawed, 3–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments narrowly club-shaped; pistils connate at least 1/2 their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
sepals reflexed, oblong or lanceolate to ovate; petals white to cream, often purplish, not spotted, linear to ± narrowly elliptic, not clawed, 2–4 mm, usually longer to sometimes shorter than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths, (conic); ovary ± 1/2 inferior. |
Capsules | green, purplish tinged, ± folliclelike, (basally connate). |
dark purple-black, valvate. |
Micranthes spicata |
Micranthes razshivinii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Wet tundra, heaths, moist, rocky areas, streamsides | Tundra, stream banks, alpine rocky slopes |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 400-2000 m (1300-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; YT |
AK; NT; YT |
Discussion | Micranthes razshivinii is found in eastern Alaska (eastern Brooks Range, from Atigun Pass eastward and from Mount McKinley National Park eastward) into Yukon and in the Mackenzie and Richardson mountains in the Northwest Territories. Its leaves are generally narrower than those of M. calycina and the teeth are less numerous. The glabrous inflorescence branches of M. razshivinii readily distinguish it from M. calycina, which has hairy branches. The ranges of the two species may overlap or at least abut in the Atigun Pass area of the Brooks Range, in the Mount McKinley National Park area, and possibly in the Saint Elias Mountains. Hybrids would be very difficult to distinguish from the parents but may occur. They have not been observed in the material examined. Plants of this species sometimes have been misidentified as M. davurica (Willdenow) Small, a species restricted to eastern Siberia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 57. | FNA vol. 8, p. 59. |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga spicata | Saxifraga razshivinii |
Name authority | (D. Don) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 146. (1905) | (Zhmylev) Brouillet & Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1021. (2007) |
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