Potentilla plumosa T.T.Yu & C.L.Li

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete, woody. Flowering stems spreading or ascending, 4–30 cm tall, spreading white sericeous-villous. Radical leaves 2–7 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white villous, rarely glabrescent; petiole white tomentose and white villous; leaf blade pinnate with 6–9 pairs of leaflets; leaflets opposite or alternate, at intervals of 2–4 mm, sessile, elliptic, 3–15 × 2–8 mm, abaxially white tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, densely appressed white villous on veins, adaxially appressed white pubescent, margin slightly revolute, parted to midvein, apex obtuse; segments 3–5 on each side of midvein, fasciated; cauline leaves resembling radical ones but only with 3–5 pairs of leaflets; stipules green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially densely appressed villous, margin 2–4-dentate-lobed or serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence densely or laxly corymbose-cymose, 3–10-flowered. Flowers 1–1.5 cm in diam. Sepals ovate or triangular-ovate, apex acute or acuminate; epicalyx segments ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter than sepals, abaxially densely pubescent or villous, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, obovate, ca. 2 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 20. Carpels numerous; ovary subreniform; style subterminal, base inconspicuously thickened; stigma slightly dilated, capitate. Achenes ovoid-ellipsoid, smooth, abaxially swollen. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.3
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JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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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 plumosa world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:728739-1
WFO ID wfo-0000984022
COL ID 6W7B9
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Synonyms

Potentilla plumosa