Potentilla peduncularis


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)


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Potentilla peduncularis ??
Arunachal Pradesh
12.8.17



 
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