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Braya thorild-wulffii

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Braya thorild-wulffii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Braya
Species:
B. thorild-wulffii
Binomial name
Braya thorild-wulffii
Synonyms[1]
  • Braya pilosa subsp. thorild-wulffii (Ostenf.) V.V. Petrovsky
  • Braya purpurascens subsp. thorild-wulffii (Ostenf.) Hultén
  • Braya purpurascens var. thorild-wulffii (Ostenf.) B. Boivin

Braya thorild-wulffii, the Greenland northern rockcress, is a plant species native to Greenland, Nunavut the Canadian Northwest Territories, and from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of eastern Russia.[2][3][4][5]

Braya thorild-wulffii is an herb up to 10 cm tall, sometimes hairy, sometimes not. Leaves are spatula-shaped, up to 4 cm long. Flowers are white to purplish, up to 10 mm in diameter. Fruits spherical or egg-shaped, up to 10 mm in diameter.[2][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ Tropicos
  2. ^ a b Flora of North America v 7 p 551
  3. ^ Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.
  4. ^ Warwick, S. I., A. Francis & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Plant Systematics and Evolution 259: 249–258.
  5. ^ Aiken, S.G., Dallwitz, M.J., Consaul, L.L., McJannet, C.L., Boles, R.L., Argus, G.W., Gillett, J.M., Scott, P.J., Elven, R., LeBlanc, M.C., Gillespie, L.J., Brysting, A.K., Solstad, H., and Harris, J.G. 2007. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
  6. ^ Harris, James G. 2006. Novon 16(3): 352, f. 5.
  7. ^ Böcher, T. W. 1978. Greenlands Flora 326 pp.
  8. ^ Scoggan, H. J. 1978. Dicotyledoneae (Saururaceae to Violaceae). 3: 547–1115. In Flora of Canada. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.
  9. ^ Ostenfeld, Carl Emil Hansen. 1923. Meddelelser om Grønland 64: 176–179, f. 2(3–4), 3(3–4), pl. 3A(1–4), 3B(1–2).
  10. ^ Petrovsky, V. V. 1975. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 7: 52
  11. ^ Hultén, Oskar Eric Gunnar. 1971. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, n.s. 13(1): 18.
  12. ^ Boivin, B. 1967. Le Naturaliste Canadien 94(5): 646.