Papaver macounii subsp. discolor

(Hultén) Rändel ex D. F. Murray

Novon 5: 294. 1995.

Selected by author to be illustrated
Basionym: Variety Hultén
Synonyms: Species D. LöveSpecies unknown
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
Revision as of 14:40, 27 July 2019 by FNA>Volume Importer

Plants slender, to 4 dm, persistent leaf bases few, flexible, lanceolate, ciliate, glabrous to hispid. Leaves to 12 cm; blade green or light green abaxially, dark green adaxially, with 2-3 pairs of primary lateral lobes; surfaces glabrate to densely pilose, trichomes light brown. Inflorescences: scapes glabrate to hispid with appressed and spreading trichomes. Flowers to 5 cm diam.; petals yellow or very rarely pink; anthers yellow; stigmas 4-6, disc conic-umbonate. Capsules clavate, to 2.5 cm, sparsely to sometimes densely strigose. 2n = 28, 70 (as P. radicatum Rottb. s.l.).


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Mesic arctic and alpine tundra and meadows
Elevation: 0-1200 m

Distribution

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N.W.T., Yukon, Alaska, Russian Far East.

Discussion

If this taxon is recognized at species rather than subspecies rank, the correct name is Papaver keelei. Specimens of P. paucistaminum Tolmatchew & Petrovsky from Chukotka in the Russian Far East fall within the range of variation described here.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.