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Potentilla evestita Wolf

脱绒委陵菜

Description from Flora of China

Herbs perennial. Roots terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 15–30 cm tall, sparsely pilose or glabrescent. Radical leaves 5–15 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially pilose; petiole sparsely pilose, sometimes sparsely glandular hairy; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets adaxially green, broadly obovate or rhombic-elliptic, 1.5–4.5 × 1–3 cm, abaxially initially canescent tomentose, later glabrescent, villous and glandular along midvein, adaxially pilose and glandular, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin obtusely 3–6-incised serrate or lobed, apex obtuse; cauline leaves: stipules brown, ovate, herbaceous, abaxially pilose and glandular, margin entire or apex 2-fid; leaflets resembling those of radical leaves. Inflorescence laxly corymbose-cymose. Flowers ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm, pilose and glandular hairy. Sepals ovate-oblong or triangular-lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute; epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate, abaxially pilose and glandular, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, obovate, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened; stigma slightly dilated. Achenes sparsely rugose. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.

Stream sides, alpine rock crevices; 2000--2600 m. Xinjiang [Mongolia, Russia (Siberia); C Asia].


 

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