Braya fernaldii Abbe

En: Fernald's braya, Fernald's rockcress, Fernald's northern rockcress
Fr: braya de Fernald
Provincial Status: N
Range: Newfoundland endemic (nwNfld.); calc.

[=Braya americana (Hook.) Fernald p.p. (type: Cape Norman, nwNfld.)]
[=Braya purpurascens (R.Br.) Bunge var. fernaldii (Abbe) B.Boivin]

[The reference in Fernald's Gray's Manual (1970: 712) to another species of Braya from the Northern Peninsula likely refers to densely villous plants of Braya fernaldii that were diseased (a possible viral infection). Plants of Braya fernaldii with sterile infected shoots and fertile normal shoots have been found on the same plants in populations at Watt's Point (Meades 1996b). Classified as Threatened in Canada, the endemic Braya fernaldii is found in frost-disturbed areas of limestone barrens along the coast of the Great Northern Peninsula (Bouchard et al. 1991).]

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