Potentilla peduncularis D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 230 230 1825. (syn: Potentilla peduncularis var. abbreviata T.T. Yu & C.L. Li; Potentilla peduncularis var. elongata T.T. Yu & C.L. Li); Common name: East Himalayan Cinquefoil • Nepali: नागभैया Nagabhya China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, NW-India, Nepal, Sikkim, Chumbi, Myanmar
[Burma] (Chin, Sagaing), Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir) as per Catalogue of Life; Perennial rosetted herb with thick woody rootstock covered with leaf remains. Leaves mostly regularly pinnate (rarely with minute tooth-like lobes between leaflets) oblong or oblanceolate in outline, 5-20cm; lateral leaflets 9-21 pairs, oblong-elliptic 0.5-3 x 0.25-0.75cm, ± obtuse, base rounded or cuneath; margin serrate, sparsely pubescent above, usually white sericeous beneath; stipules ovate-lanceolate 1-3cm, brown. Flowers 2-5 ± corymbose, borne on almost leafless peduncles (6-)10-25cm. Calyx lobes ovate 5-6mm. Petals obovate, 8-13 x 8-10mm, rounded, yellow. Achenes obovoid 1.5-2mm, glabrous. Fl. June-July
Open hillsides and in Fir forest. (Attributions- A.C.J Grierson & D.G Long. Flora of Bhutan. Published by RBGE. 1987 from Bhutan Biodiversity Portal) Potentilla peduncularis ?? Arunachal Pradesh 12.8.17 Yes, appears close as per images at https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/East%20Himalayan%20Cinquefoil.html References:
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