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Draba kluanei
Family:
Brassicaceae
Kluane Park Whitlow-Grass
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FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, Michael D. Windham, Reidar Elven in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Perennials;
(cespitose); caudex branched (with persistent leaf remains); not scapose.
Stems
unbranched, 0.1-0.35 dm, pilose throughout, trichomes simple, (slightly crisped), 0.4-0.9 mm.
Basal leaves
rosulate; petiolate; petiole base and margin ciliate, (trichomes usually simple, rarely some 2-rayed, 0.2-0.7 mm); blade oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 0.6-1.5 cm × 0.5-2 mm, margins entire or sparsely dentate, surfaces pubescent, abaxially with simple trichomes, 0.3-0.9 mm, with fewer, 2 (or 3)-rayed ones, 0.07-0.3 mm, adaxially with simple trichomes.
Cauline leaves
1-3; sessile; blade lanceolate, margins entire, surfaces pubescent as basal.
Racemes
2-7-flowered, ebracteate or proximalmost 1 or 2 flowers bracteate, slightly elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, glabrous.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate-ascending, straight, 1-2 mm, glabrous.
Flowers:
sepals ovate, 0.7-1.3 mm, subapically sparsely pubescent, (trichomes simple); petals white, spatulate, 1.5-2 × 0.4-0.8 mm; anthers ovate, 0.2-0.3 mm.
Fruits
lanceolate, plane, flattened, 3-4 × 1-1.5 mm; valves pubescent, trichomes simple, 0.7-0.2 mm; ovules 14-16 per ovary; style 0.1-0.25 mm.
Seeds
oblong, ca. 0.6 × 0.4 mm.
Flowering Jul. Rocky alpine slopes; of conservation concern; ca. 2000 m; Yukon.
Draba kluanei
is known only from the type collection made in Kluane National Park, southwestern Yukon Territory.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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