Potentilla griffithii Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete, sometimes much branched. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 10–60 cm tall, together with petioles spreading villous and pubescent or tomentose. Radical leaves 3–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially villous or glabrescent; leaf blade pinnate with 2 or 3(or 4) pairs of leaflets; leaflets usually opposite, rarely proximal ones alternate, at intervals of 0.8–1.2 cm, sessile or subsessile, adaxially green, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 0.5–3 × 0.5–1.5 cm, abaxially white tomentose and villous, densely villous on veins, sometimes white tomentum deciduous, adaxially appressed pilose, base cuneate or broadly so, margin obtusely or acutely incised serrate, apex obtuse, rarely acute; cauline leaves: stipules herbaceous, sometimes abaxially densely white tomentose and villous, margin 2-or 3-fid, dentate-lobed, or entire; leaf blade pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets, or 3-foliolate; leaflets resembling those of radical leaves. Inflorescence corymbose-cymose, laxly few flowered. Flowers 1.5–2.5 cm in diam. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acute to acuminate; epicalyx segments lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-elliptic, shorter than or nearly equaling sepals, green and pilose or sometimes white tomentose abaxially. Petals yellow, rarely white, obovate, 1–2 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, conic, base thickened; stigma minute, not dilated. Achenes smooth. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.6
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Distribution

Potentilla griffithii world distribution map, present in China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:728194-1
WFO ID wfo-0000991189
COL ID 6VVNX
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Synonyms

Potentilla sikkimensis Potentilla griffithii Potentilla griffithii var. griffithii Potentilla leschenaultiana var. reticulata

Lower taxons

Potentilla griffithii var. velutina