Potentilla asperrima Turcz.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Roots terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 8–13 cm tall, together with petioles setose, sparsely pubescent, and stipitate or sessile glandular. Radical leaves 4–9 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially setose, pubescent, and sparsely glandular; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets subsessile or shortly petiolulate, obovate, 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.5 cm, abaxially setose, pubescent, and sessile glandular, adaxially setose, base cuneate, margin acutely incised serrate, occasionally doubly serrate, apex obtuse; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones; stipules herbaceous, abaxially setose, pubescent, and glandular. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose-cymose, few flowered. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–1.5 cm, villous and glandular hairy. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acuminate; epicalyx segments lanceolate, abaxially setose, margin serrate, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obcordate, nearly equaling or longer than sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened; stigma dilated. Achenes subreniform, rugose. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.13
Root system fibrous-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Potentilla asperrima world distribution map, present in China and Liberia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:727682-1
WFO ID wfo-0000984701
COL ID 4M4ZN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Potentilla asperrima