Hieracium mallaense Norrl.

Sennikov, Alexander, 2025, The collection-based inventory and spatial analysis of Hieracium s. str. (Asteraceae) in Finland, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 154676-e 154676 : e154676-

Hieracium mallaense Norrl.

Native status

Native. Tundra, riversides.

Distribution

Finland: Le; northern Sweden and Norway.

Notes

This species is included in Hieracium rubefactum Johanss. in POWO (2025).

Diagnosis

Stems 25–35 cm tall. Basal leaves pale greyish-green, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, base narrowly cuneate to cuneate, apex narrowly triangular to triangular, with minute to prominent teeth (may be coarse at the base), on a long petiole, with sparse to dense simple hairs 1–1.5 mm long above (glabrescent in the middle); cauline leaf 1, at the middle of the stem, strongly reduced. Synflorescence of 2–3 flowering heads, with long slender branches. Phyllaries narrowly triangular, with acute apex, ca. 11 mm long, dark-olivaceous, with rather dense to dense blackish simple hairs 1–1.5 mm long, rather dense glandular hairs 0.2–0.7 mm long and rare to sparse stellate hairs in the basal part, without glabrous margins, apex with a few short ciliae. Synflorescence branches with rare to rather rare simple hairs up 1–1.5 mm long, dense stiff glandular hairs 0.5–0.8 mm long and stellate hairs. Styles with black papillae. Ligules glabrous.