Potentilla leuconota D. Don var. corymbosa Cardot.

Herbs perennial. Rhizomes short. Flowering stems 10–35 cm tall, together with petioles appressed villous or sericeous. Radical leaves 7–16 cm including petiole; auricles of stipules free, apex acute to acuminate; leaf blade interrupted pinnate with 10–22 pairs of leaflets; terminal leaflet lanceolate to oblong, 1–2 cm × 4–8 mm, abaxially densely silvery or yellowish sericeous, base decurrent in apical 2 or 3 pairs of leaflets, margin sharply serrate; cauline leaves: auricles of stipules herbaceous, apex incised parted or incised serrate; leaf blade with 1–6 pairs of leaflets. Inflorescence corymbose-cymose. Flowers 0.8–1.5 cm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2 cm. Epicalyx segments oblong to obovate, margin entire or 2–4-parted. Petals yellow, elliptic to obovate, apex rounded or subretuse. Style lateral; stigma slightly dilated. Achenes not seen. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.

Potentilla cardotiana is similar to P. peduncularis in habit, but has radical leaf stipules with free auricles acute to acuminate at the apex, whereas the stipules of P. peduncularis have auricles connate from the base to the rounded apex. Many specimens of P. cardotiana collected in China were misidentified as P. peduncularis.

Forests, thickets, alpine meadows, gravelly slopes; 3100--4000 m. Yunnan [Myanmar, Nepal].