Saussurea angustifolia var. viscida
Great Basin Naturalist 28: 152. 1968.
Common names: Sticky saw-wort
Basionym: Saussurea viscida Hultén Fl. Alaska Yukon 10: 1627, fig. 6c. 1950
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
Alaska, Russian Far East (Chukotka)
Discussion
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Lower Taxa
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short-tailed +
darker purple +
introrse +
connate +
acute +
scarious +
acute +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
lanceolate;elliptic +
acute +
hairy +
barbellate +
connate +
longer +
falling +
coarse +
absent +
crowded +
Sticky saw-wort +
actinomorphic +
monomorphic +
3mm;4mm +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
8;22 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
viscid +
discoid +
crowded +
indeterminate +
2;10 +
homogamous +
not spiny +
persistent +
falling +
surrounding +
ovoid;campanulate or more or less turbinate +
sessile +
alternate +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (?) +
denticulate +
scarious +
ovate +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
brownish +
persistent +
falling +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
many +
unequal +
acute +
connate +
stigmatic +
short-papillate +
oblong;linear +
Great Basin Naturalist +
1968 +
absent +
bristly +
convex;flat +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
2;3 +
subequal;strongly unequal +
alternate +
simple +
few +
2-branched +
ringed +
enlarged +
Saussurea angustifolia var. viscida +
Saussurea angustifolia +
variety +
perennial +