| Vahlodea atropurpurea subsp. paramushirensis (Kudo) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Deschampsia atropurpurea var. paramushirensis Kudo. | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted, culms erect, slender; leaves flat, soft, more or less pubescent with long, soft hairs; panicle few-flowered, with capillary, flexuous, scabrous branches, naked below; glumes equally long, exceeding floret; lemmas scabrous and erose at tip, with tuft of hairs reaching less than halfway from base; awn inserted about middle of lemma. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, meadows, snow beds. V. atropurpurea described from Lapland, subsp. paramushirensis from Paramushiro Island, N. Kurile Islands. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates the range of subspecies that do not occur within area of interest. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.