Potentilla saundersiana Royle

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete, rarely slender. Flowering stems erect or ascending, rarely low and tufted, 10–20 cm tall, together with petioles white tomentose and pilose. Radical leaves 2–5 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white villous or glabrescent; leaf blade subpinnately or palmately 3–7(or 8)-foliolate; leaflets sessile, adaxially green or grayish green, oblong-obovate, rarely broadly obovate, 0.5–2 cm × 4–10 mm, abaxially densely white tomentose, appressed pilose on veins, adaxially sparsely appressed pilose or densely appressed sericeous, base cuneate, margin slightly obtusely or acutely many incised serrate, rarely lobed to parted, apex obtuse, rarely acute; cauline leaves 1 or 2; stipules green, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially white tomentose and pilose, margin usually entire, apex acute or acuminate; leaf blade 3–5-foliolate; leaflets resembling those of radical leaves. Inflorescence terminal, laxly cymose, 1(or 2)-or many flowered. Flowers 1–1.4 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–3 cm, white tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate or triangular-lanceolate; epicalyx segments lanceolate or elliptic, shorter than or nearly equaling sepals, abaxially white tomentose and pilose, apex acute or 1–3(–5)-fid. Petals yellow, obovate, slightly longer than or ca. 2 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base inconspicuously thickened; stigma slightly dilated. Achenes smooth. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.2
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Rooting depth (meter) 0.1
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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 saundersiana world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:728924-1
WFO ID wfo-0001017602
COL ID 4M5ZG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Potentilla thibetica Potentilla saundersiana Potentilla saundersiana var. saundersiana Potentilla potaninii var. subdigitata Potentilla leschenaultiana var. pumila Potentilla multifida var. saundersiana Potentilla griffithii var. pumila

Lower taxons

Potentilla saundersiana var. subpinnata Potentilla saundersiana var. jacquemontii