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'''''Cornus'' × ''unalaschkensis''''' is a species of flowering plant in the [[Cornaceae]], the dogwood family. Common names for the plant include '''Alaskan bunchberry''',<ref name=bc/> '''western cordilleran bunchberry''',<ref name=usda/><ref name=mich/><ref name=itis/> or simply '''western bunchberry'''.<ref name=burke/>
 
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The species is native to the west coast of North America from [[Alaska]] to [[California]],<ref name=usda/> as well as [[Magadan Oblast|Magadan]] in [[Russia]].<ref name=grin/> In the northwestern United States it is a common plant,<ref name=turner/> even abundant.<ref name=burke/>
 
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This is a [[rhizome|rhizomatous]] subshrub with stems up to 20 centimeters tall. Leaves are borne in a whorl and are oval in shape and up to 8 centimeters long.<ref name=burke/> The leaves are hairless to hairy.<ref name=bc/> Flowers are borne in a cyme [[inflorescence]], but are much smaller than the four white or pinkish [[bract]]s surrounding them. These bracts are 1 or 2 centimeters long; the petals at the center are only about a millimeter long. The fruit is a bright red [[drupe]] 6 to 8 millimeters in length.<ref name=burke/>
 
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Its habitat includes forests and [[bog]]s, especially with layers of decaying matter.<ref name=wnps/>
 
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The [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] of this plant is not entirely certain.<ref name=murr/> This particular plant is not always considered a species in its own right. It is sometimes called a [[hybrid (biology)|hybrid]], or ''Cornus'' × ''unalaschkensis''.<ref name=kew/> Sometimes it is listed as the same species as ''[[Cornus canadensis]]''.<ref name=wnps/> However, many authors consider it to be an [[allopolyploid]], with [[chromosome]]s descended from ''C.&nbsp;canadensis'' and ''[[Cornus suecica|C.&nbsp;suecica]]''.<ref name=bc/><ref name=grin/> The three species can be told apart by careful examination of the petal and leaf morphology.<ref name=bc/> Also, ''C.&nbsp;unalaschensis'' does not usually grow in the same regions as the other two plants.<ref name=bc/>
 
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The fruit of this plant is edible, and has been used for food by various [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] groups, such as the [[Nuxalk Nation|Bella Coola]] and [[Kitasoo]]. For example, the [[Haisla people|Haisla]] mixed the berries with [[eulachon|oolichan]] grease and served the mash for dessert.<ref name=mich/>
 
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*Spurgeon, C. [http://seattletimes.com/html/homegarden/2003970284_gardennative24.html Bunchberry (''Cornus unalaschkensis'').] ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' October 24, 2007.
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Revision as of 18:01, 20 August 2018

Cornus × unalaschkensis
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Cornales
Family: Cornaceae
Genus: Cornus
Species:
C. × unalaschkensis
Binomial name
Cornus × unalaschkensis
Synonyms[1][2][3]
  • Arctocrania × unalaschkensis (Ledeb.) Nakai
  • Chamaepericlymenum unalaschkense (Ledeb.) Rydb.
  • Cornella unalaschkensis (Ledeb.) Rydb.
  • Cornella × unalaschkensis (Ledeb.) Rydb.
  • Cornus × intermedia (Farr) Calder & R.L.Taylor
  • Cornus × lepagei Gervais & Blondeau

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cornus unalaschkensis was originally described and published in Flora Rossica 2: 378. 1844. "Name - Cornus unalaschkensis Lebed". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ Sinclair, Walter Bruce (2013). Klinkenberg, Brian, ed. "E-Flora Atlas page for Cornus unalaschkensis Ledeb". E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  3. ↑ Cornus unalaschkensis, treated as Cornus × unalaschkensis "TPL, treatment of Cornus × unalaschkensis Ledeb". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2013.

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