Grasses of the Queen Elizabeth Islands

For the 27 species and three hybrid taxa of grasses known to occur in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Canadian High Arctic, a key to the taxa, and tables comparing vegetative, inflorescence, and spikelet characters are presented. Nomenclature, including some synonymy, notes on variable characters...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Botany
Main Authors: McLachlan, K. I., Aiken, S. G., Lefkovitch, L. P., Edlund, S. A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1989
Subjects:
Plant Science
Arctic
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b89-265
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b89-265
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Summary:For the 27 species and three hybrid taxa of grasses known to occur in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Canadian High Arctic, a key to the taxa, and tables comparing vegetative, inflorescence, and spikelet characters are presented. Nomenclature, including some synonymy, notes on variable characters or characteristics not presented in the tables, ecological and geographical occurrences, as well as comments on taxonomy are given.

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