Hieracium muonioense 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 muonioense Norrl.

Native status

Native. Meadows.

Distribution

Finland: Lkk; northern Sweden.

Notes

This species is included in Hieracium aurigerum Norrl. in POWO (2025).

Diagnosis

Stems 20–30 cm tall. Basal leaves pale greyish-green, oblong-lanceolate, base narrowly cuneate to cuneate, apex narrowly subrotund, with indistinct minute teeth, on a long petiole, with dense simple hairs up to 1.5 mm long above (glabrescent in the middle); cauline leaves 2–3, lowermost one at the stem base, reduced in size. Synflorescence of 1 (2) flowering head (s). Phyllaries very narrowly triangular to nearly linear, with rather obtuse apex, 12–13 mm long, dark-olivaceous, with abundant black-based simple hairs 3–4 mm long, dense glandular hairs 0.2–0.3 (0.5) mm long and without stellate hairs, apex with a small coma of long ciliae. Synflorescence branches with rather dense simple hairs ca. 2 mm long, dense stiff glandular hairs 0.5–1 mm long and stellate hairs. Styles with black papillae. Ligules unevenly ciliate.