Species: Cornus unalaschkensis
Western Dwarf Dogwood
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Dicotyledoneae
Order
Cornales
Family
Cornaceae
Genus
Cornus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Western Cordilleran Bunchberry - western cordilleran bunchberry
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Dogwood Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Cornales - Cornaceae - Cornus - Kartesz (1994 checklist and 1999 floristic synthesis) treats as a species, following Murrell (Syst. Bot. 19(4): 539-556, 1994), who shows that Cornus unalaskensis is an allotetraploid derived from hybridization between Cornus canadensis and C. suecica. Under this treatment, the name C. unalaschkensis applies only to the tetraploid, which occurs only in western North America, and not to the modern diploid hybrids between these two parental species, found in their areas of overlap in both western North America and easternmost North America. Those plants may lack a formal scientific name.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5?
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-15
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-15
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Reported by Murrell (1994) from Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest; reports from eastern Canada and Greenland are an unnamed diploid hybrid of C. canadensis and C. suecica instead.