| Betula papyrifera var. commutata (Regel) Fern. | |||
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| Family | Betulaceae — APG family: Betulaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Betula papyrifera var. occidentalis Sarg., Betula papyrifera subsp. occidentalis Hult., Betula alba subsp. occidentalis (Hook.) Regel | ||
| Common name | paper birch | ||
| Description | Tree up to 15 meters tall; leaves dark green, ovate, rounded at base, coarsely double-serrate, with apex not markedly elongated; leaves glabrous above, somewhat pilose below, especially in angles of nerves; bracts with long median lobe, strongly ciliate; wings of nutlet broader than body. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Replaces B. papyrifera subsp. humilis in the Lynn Canal area and toward the southeast. |
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.