Biology:Arctagrostis latifolia

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Short description: Species of grass from the high Arctic

Arctagrostis latifolia
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Botanical illustration
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Arctagrostis
Species:
A. latifolia
Binomial name
Arctagrostis latifolia
(R.Br.) Griseb.
Synonyms[1]

Arctagrostis latifolia, the wideleaf polargrass, is a widespread species of grass (family Poaceae), with a circumpolar distribution in the high Arctic.[1][2] It is a tetraploid with chromosome number 2n = 4x = 28.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Arctagrostis latifolia (R.Br.) Griseb.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:389173-1. 
  2. "Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb. wideleaf polargrass". United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=ARLA2. 
  3. Amosova, Alexandra V.; Zoshchuk, Svyatoslav A.; Rodionov, Alexander V.; Ghukasyan, Lilit; Samatadze, Tatiana E.; Punina, Elizaveta O.; Loskutov, Igor G.; Yurkevich, Olga Yu. et al. (2019). "Molecular cytogenetics of valuable Arctic and sub-Arctic pasture grass species from the Aveneae/Poeae tribe complex (Poaceae)". BMC Genetics 20 (1): 92. doi:10.1186/s12863-019-0792-2. PMID 31801460. 

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