Potentilla elegans Chamisso & Schlechtendal (Q4000)

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Potentilla elegans is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Aureae
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Potentilla elegans Chamisso & Schlechtendal
Potentilla elegans is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Aureae

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    taxon/id/Potentilla elegans Chamisso & Schlechtendal
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    Potentilla elegans Chamisso & Schlechtendal
    Potentilla elegans
    Chamisso & Schlechtendal
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    potentille élégante (French)
    elegant cinquefoil (English)
    Elegant cinquefoil (English)
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    1 reference
    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
    e Asia (Russian Far East)
    Flowering spring–summer.
    rock crevices
    blocky scree
    mountain summits
    acidic bedrock
    Plants densely tufted to cushion-forming;
    caudex branches usually short, stout, sometimes embedded in old leaves.
    Stems erect, 0.1–0.5 dm, lengths 1–2 times leaves.
    Basal leaves not in ranks, ternate, 0.5–2.5 (–4) cm;
    stipules: apex acute to obtuse;
    petiole 0.2–1.8 (–2.5) cm, long hairs ± sparse, ± spreading, 0.2–1 mm, weak, glands sparse to abundant;
    leaflets 3, central obtriangular to flabellate, 0.5–0.7 (–1) × 0.5–0.7 cm, petiolule 0–0.5 mm, margins flat, distal 3/4+ deeply 3–5-lobed (sinuses extending 2/3–3/4 to midvein), lobes unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, teeth 1–3 (–5) per lobe, surfaces similar, green, brownish, or reddish, hairs absent or sparse, 0.2–0.5 mm, glands sparse to common (also densely punctate-glandular).
    Inflorescences 1-flowered.
    Pedicels straight or ± curved, 0–0.5 (–2) cm in flower, to 5 cm in fruit.
    Flowers: epicalyx bractlets linear, elliptic, or obovate, 2–2.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, margins flat;
    hypanthium 2.5–3.5 mm diam.;
    sepals 2.2–2.5 mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse;
    petals pale-yellow, 3–3.5 × 3–3.5 mm;
    filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.3–0.4 mm;
    carpels 20–25, styles ± columnar, not papillate-swollen proximally, 0.7–0.9 mm.
    Achenes 1.2 mm. 2n = 14, 28 (Russian Far East).