Overview

Distribution

Hieracium angmagssalikense Omang:
Greenland (North America)
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Hieracium alpinum L.:
Greenland (North America)
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Physical Description

Morphology

Comments

The type of Hieracium trigonophorum Oskarsson is probably conspecific with that of H. alpinum.
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Description

Plants 10–15(–25+) cm. Stems proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 3–5+ mm), stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular, distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 3–5+ mm), stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal 5–13+, cauline 0(–2+); blades spatulate to elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, 20–80 × 6–20+ mm, lengths 2–8+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins usually entire, rarely dentate, apices rounded to acute, faces piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–3+ mm). Heads borne singly or 2+ in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles piloso-hirsute, stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 5–8+. Involucres ± hemispheric, 13–18 mm. Phyllaries 13–21+, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces piloso-hirsute and stipitate-glandular. Florets 80–120+; corollas yellow, 12–15 mm. Cypselae columnar, 3.5–4 mm; pappi of 40–60+, stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 6–7 mm.
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Diagnostic Description

Synonym

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Ecology

Associations

Associations

Foodplant / spot causer
amphigenous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph of Mycosphaerella hieracii causes spots on live leaf of Hieracium alpinum

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Statistics of barcoding coverage: Hieracium alpinum

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Species: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1

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