Help - vascular plants in Antarctica

[Thomas Lammers]

At 05:52 PM 1/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Are you sure that there are vascular plants in Antarctica?  We found grasses
>on Deception Island, but that island is NOT part of mainland Antarctica.  I
>do not recall finding any on the continent itself.  There are also grasses
>and other vascular plants on the subantarctic islands.

I recollect Dr. Pohl telling us in agrostology 25 yrs ago that there were 3
spp. -- 2 of which grasses (1 maybe a Deschampsia?); the other may be a
crucifer, Cakile?


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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