Oxyria digyna (Linnaeus) Hill

Desjardins, Émilie, Lai, Sandra, Payette, Serge, Dubé, Martin, Sokoloff, Paul C., St-Louis, Annie, Poulin, Marie-Pier, Legros, Jade, Sirois, Luc, Vézina, François, Tam, Andrew & Berteaux, Dominique, 2021, Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas, Check List 17 (1), pp. 181-225 : 211

Oxyria digyna (Linnaeus) Hill

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Materials examined. CANADA – Nunavut • Ellesmere Island, CFS Alert ; 82°31′03″N, 062°26′20″W; 58 m a.s.l.; 2 Jul. 2019; habitat: barren ground near a river, with till and rocks as substrates; QFA0635579 .

Identification. Plants 2.5–7.0 cm high; herbaceous; caespitose. Fibrous roots and rhizomes present. Stems 0.5–5.0 cm long; erect; glabrous. Leaves basal; alternate; petiolate. Petioles 8–16 mm long; glabrous; adnate, with ocrea. Basal leaf blade 5–18 mm long, 5–20 mm wide; reniform or orbicular; bases cordate; thick; green or reddish; abaxial and adaxial surfaces both glabrous; margins glabrous; apices rounded. Inflorescences a racemiform or paniculiform cyme, with ≥30 pedicel- late flowers; 16–40 mm long. Tepals 4; 1.8–2.3 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; sepaloid; obovate or oblanceolate; green, red, or pink. Androecium with 5–7 stamens and 1.0– 1.3 mm long anthers. Gynoecium with 2 styles and 1 stigma per style. Fruit an achene; 2.5–4.5 mm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide; ovoid; winged; yellowish green to red; glabrous.

Ranunculaceae – Buttercup family