Saussurea angustifolia var. viscida

(Hultén) S. L. Welsh

Great Basin Naturalist 28: 152. 1968.

Common names: Sticky saw-wort
Basionym: Saussurea viscida Hultén Fl. Alaska Yukon 10: 1627, fig. 6c. 1950
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 167. Mentioned on page 166.

Plants 5–15 cm. Stems simple, lightly arachnoid and villous with viscid hairs. Leaves often wider than 8 mm; basal lanceolate to elliptic, margins denticulate, arachnoid throughout or viscid-villous on margins and abaxially on midvein; cauline leaves narrower, crowded, usually surpassing heads. Heads crowded. Phyllaries unequal in 2–3 series; outer phyllaries usually 2–4 times longer than wide. 2n = unknown.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Tundra, insular and coastal regions
Elevation: 10–100 m

Distribution

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Alaska, Russian Far East (Chukotka)

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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"fine" is not a number."narrower" is not a number.

purplish +, tinged dark +  and dark green +
tomentose +  and pilose +
short-tailed +
darker purple +
not +  and appendaged +
entire +  and not spine-tipped +
glandular +  and glabrous +
scarious +
corymbiform +, crowded +  and open +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
David J. Keil +
(Hultén) S. L. Welsh +
lanceolate;elliptic +
Saussurea viscida +
compound +  and simple +
elliptic +  and linear to narrowly +
12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
10-nerved or 20-nerved +  and rugose +
Sticky saw-wort +
actinomorphic +
white +  and blue or purple +
1,100 cm11,000 mm <br />11 m <br /> (1,500 cm15,000 mm <br />15 m <br />) +
4-5-angled +, cylindric +, angled +  and oblong +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alaska +  and Russian Far East (Chukotka) +
10–100 m +
eglandular +  and glandular +
glabrous +  and densely tomentose +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Tundra, insular and coastal regions +
indeterminate +
glabrescent +  and tomentose +
each +  and sessile +
ovoid;campanulate or more or less turbinate +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
cauline +  and basal +
smaller +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (?) +
deltate +, usually narrowly triangular +  and more or less linear +
dentate +  and entire +
viscid-villous +  and arachnoid +
denticulate +
2-carpellate +
inner +  and outer +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
persistent +
Flowering Jul–Aug. +
papillate +  and smooth +
distinct +  and fused +
short-papillate +
oblong;linear +
Great Basin Naturalist +
naked +  and epaleate +
convex;flat +
roughened +  and smooth +
exalbuminous +
subequal;strongly unequal +
ascending +  and arising +
villous +  and arachnoid +
appendaged +  and truncate +
dilated +  and swollen +
enlarged +
Serratula angustifolia +
Saussurea angustifolia var. viscida +
Saussurea angustifolia +
variety +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
expanded +  and slender +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
19 +, 18 +, 17 +, 16 +, 14 +  and 13 +