Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Micranthes tenuis (Wahl.) Small
Saxifraga nivalis tenuis Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 113. 1812. Saxifraga nivalis ramosa Engler, Monogr. Saxifr. 147. 1872.
Leaves spreading, 2-9 cm. long, the blades ovate to oval or orbicular-ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, crenate or dentate-crenate, ciliate, abruptly or cuneately narrowed into petiole-like bases which sometimes exceed the blade in length ; scapes erect, solitary or several together, 9-21 cm. tall, thinly glandular-pubescent, usually evenly so throughout, generally purple or purpletinged, terminating in an open cyme ; peduncles or branches of the cyme slender, subtended by spatulate bracts ; cymules relatively fewflowered, disposed in a terminal corymb-like cyme ; sepals ovate to triangular, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse, glandular-ciliate, 3-veined ; petals white, oblong, spatulate or elliptic-spatulate, 3-^ mm. long, each narrowed into a claw-like base; filaments subulate, very slender; follicles 5-6 mm. high, green or purpletinged, the tips ascending or spreading.
Type locality : Lapland.
Distribution : Labrador and Greenland. Also Iceland, Scandinavia and Lapland.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
