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Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1988, Side 32

Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1988, Side 32
SUMMARY Bog rosemary (Andromeda polifolia L.) found in Iceland by Hjörleifur Guttormsson Museum of Natural History Mýrargata 37 IS-740 NESKAUPSTAÐUR Iceland The author describes the first record of bog rosemary (Andromeda polifolia L.) in Iceland. The species was found by a local farmer in Brúnavík, Eastern Iceland. The locality is near the coast in a sphagnum-rich fen at the foot of a landslide at an altitude of 100 m. There the bog rosemary grows together with several wetland species, the flora also indicating thick snow cover in winter. A short description is given of the morphology of the plant based on specimens collected from Brúnavík, showing that we have here the subspe- cies polifolia Other rare phanerogams are known from this same area in Iceland, such as Listera ovata, Phyllodoce coerulea and Oxalis acetosella. With this finding of Andromeda po- lifolia in Iceland a gap in the circum- polar distribution of the species is closed, bog rosemary being common in Scandinavia and recorded earlier from several sites in Greenland. 150

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