13. Potentilla pteropoda Royle, Ill. Bot. Him. 207 t. 40 f2. 1834. Lehman, Rev. Pot. 157. 1856, Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 356. 1878, Th. Wolf in Bibl. Bot. 71: 96. 1908, R. R. Stewart, Ann. Catalogue Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 358. 1972.
Muqarrab Shah
Department of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
Perennial herbs, up to 8 cm tall. Rootstock thick, divided. Basal stem very short, completely covered by woody dead leaf bases. Flowering stem slender, densely sericeous, upright, ± naked, 1-2 flowered above. Leaves generally 3-foliate, rarely together with 5-foliate leaves, petioles 1-2 cm long, densely sericeous. Basal stipules adnate nearly to the middle of the petioles with linear and acute auricles. Leaflets 1.3-2 (-3) cm long, flabelliform, generally 5-7 dentate, densely sericeous above and below. Flowers terminal, yellow, 1.5-2 cm diam, pedicels erect, 1-2 cm long, densely hairy. Calyces densely sericeous, outer oblong-elliptic obtuse, inner ovate acute. Petals obcordate. Stamens 20-25, purplish. Receptacle densely sericeous. Carpels numerous, styles subterminal, filiform or subconiform, stigma not dilated. Achenes densely pubescent.
Type: Described from Kashmir (LIV).
B-7 Mansehra Urak, Nila Kaghan, Hazara, 25-7-1899, J.F. Duthie & Inayat 21284 (DD), B-8 Kashmir, Haramukh, ± 13,000 ft, in rock crevices, Ludlow & Sherriff 7859 (BM), Bhujaz, foot of Umasi La, ± 12,500 ft, Ludlow & Sherriff 9194 (BM), Kashmir, without precise locality, Mrs. M.A. Evershed 1914 (BM).
Distribution: Endemic to Pakistan and Kashmir.
A high alpine perennial herb, found in loose tufts in crevices between 4,000 and 5,000 m. The species is fairly common in Kashmir, known only from few localities in Pakistan.
