List of species on Severnaya Zemlya
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This is a list of species recorded on Severnaya Zemlya. Severnaya Zemlya is a 37,000 km2 (14,000 sq mi) archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Kara Sea in the west and the Laptev Sea in the east.
Vascular plants
Most common:
Less common:
- Alopecurus alpinus
- Cerastium regelii
- Deschampsia sp.
- draba sp.
- Draba sp.
- Novosieversia glacialis
- Phippsia sp.
- Poa abbreviata
- Poa arctica
- Saxifraga cernua
- Saxifraga nivalis
- Salix polaris
- Stellaria sp.
- Minuartia sp.
Mosses
Most common:
- Detrichum flexicaule
- Dicranum sp.
- Pogonatum sp.
- Sanionia sp.
- Bryum sp.
- Orthothecium chryseum
- Tortura sp.
Less common:
- Andreaea sp.
- Aulacomnium turgidum
- Bryum cryophilum
- Calliergon giganteum
- Calliergon obtusifolium
- Calliergon sarmentosum
- Calliergon giganteum
- Campylophus sp.
- Dichodontium sp.
- Dicranoweisia sp.
- Dicranoweisia crispula
- Dirrichum sp.
- Ditrichum flexicaule
- Drepanocladus revolvens
- Drepanocladus exannulatus
- Hylocomium splendens
- Jungermannia sp.
- Loeskypnum badium
- Philonotis sp.
- Polytrichum sp.
- Ptilidium ciliare
- Racomitrium lanuginosum
- Sanionia uncinata
- Schistidium apocarpum
- Scorpidium turgescens
- Tomenthypnum nitens
Lichens
Most common:
- Cetraria nivalis
- Thamnolia vermicularis
- Cetraria sp.
- Cornicularia sp.
- Lecidea sp.
- Ochrolechia sp.
- Parmelia sp.
Less common:
- Alectoria sp.
- Buellia sp.
- Caloplaca sp.
- Cetaria cucullata
- Cetaria sp.
- Cladia sp.
- Cladonia sp.
- Dactylina arctica
- Dermatocarpon sp.
- Hypogymnia sp.
- Ochrolechia frigida
- Peltigera sp.
- Ramalina sp.
- Rhizocarpon sp.
- Sphaerophorus sp.
- Stereocaulon sp.
- Thamnolia vermicularis
- Thamnolia sp.
- Umbilicaria sp.
- Xanthoria elegans
- Xanthoria sp.
