The growth and reproduction of Antarctic flowering plants

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greene; Indian; Many Islands; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Neny; Neny Island; New Zealand; Skottsberg; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0021; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1967.0021

The presence of flowering plants within the Antarctic botanical zone (as defined by Greene 1964 a) has been known for nearly 150 years. The first to be discovered was a small, wiry grass of tufted or mat-forming habit, now called Deschampsia antarctica Desv., while the second proved to be a small cu...