New southernmost record for Antarctic flowering plants

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Smith, Ronald I.L., Poncet, Sally
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1985
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Refuge Islands; Terra Firma; Terra Firma Islands; Barn Rock; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record; Usnea antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523475/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400005672

Smith (1982) reported the discovery in 1981 of Antarctic hair grass Deschampsia antarctica Desv. on the largest of the Refuge Islands (68° 21' S) in Marguerite Bay, off the south-west coast of Antarctic Peninsula (Figure 1). This, was at the time the southernmost record of one of Antarctica...