(Aconitum septentrionale Koelle) Plants along the Altitudinal
Gradient in the Iremel
Mountain Range
N. I. Fedorov*, L. M. Ishbirdina*, Yu. A. Yanbaev**, and A. A. Isangulova*
* Institute of Biology, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Oktyabrya 69, Ufa, 450054 Russia
** Botanical Garden–Institute, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Polyarnaya 8, Ufa, 450080 Russia
Received April 14, 1998
Abstract—Variation in five samples of monkshood (Aconitum septentrionale Koelle, fam. Ranunculaceae),
taken from sites located along the altitudinal gradient in the Iremel’ Mountain Range (the Southern Urals), was
studied using 23 morphological parameters and isozyme markers of three genetic loci. The sample from short
grass subalpine tundra meadows situated at the highest altitude proved to be the most isolated morphologically
and genetically. Plants of this sample are morphologically close to the form A. septentrionale, which was pre-
viously classified as the individual species A. lycoctonum L. growing in plant communities of northern Europe.
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