Potentilla sect. Rivales Poeverlein in P. F. A. Ascherson et al. (Q3961)

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Potentilla sect. Rivales is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Potentilla
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Potentilla sect. Rivales Poeverlein in P. F. A. Ascherson et al.
Potentilla sect. Rivales is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Potentilla

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    taxon/id/Potentilla sect. Rivales Poeverlein
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    Potentilla sect. Rivales Poeverlein
    Potentilla sect. Rivales
    Poeverlein
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Potentilla sect. Rivales
    North America
    Mexico
    Central America
    South America
    Eurasia
    Africa
    in Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
    Australia
    taproots not fleshy-thickened;
    vestiture of long hairs, sometimes ± crisped hairs present, glands absent or sparse to abundant, not red (sometimes red-septate).
    Stems decumbent to erect, sometimes prostrate, not flagelliform, not rooting at nodes, from centers of ephemeral basal rosettes, (1–) 2–6 (–9) dm, lengths (1–) 2–5 (–12) times basal leaves.
    cauline (0–) 1–9 (–14);
    basal and proximal cauline ternate or palmate to pinnate (with distal leaflets ± confluent), (2–) 3–15 (–25) cm;
    petiole: long hairs ascending to spreading, rarely appressed, weak to stiff, glands absent or sparse to abundant;
    leaflets 3–9, at tip to distal 2/3 of leaf axis, separate to overlapping, oblanceolate or elliptic to obovate, sometimes oval or nearly round, margins flat, distal 1/2 to ± whole length evenly to unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, teeth (2–) 3–8 (–15) per side, surfaces ± similar, green (abaxial often paler), not glaucous, long hairs weak to stiff, cottony hairs absent.
    Inflorescences (5–) 20–100+-flowered, ± cymose, sometimes racemiform, compact to open.
    Pedicels straight to ± recurved in fruit, 0.2–2 (–3) cm, proximal often ± longer than distal.
    Flowers 5-merous;
    hypanthium (2–) 3–6 (–7) mm diam.;
    petals pale-yellow to yellow, broadly oblanceolate to oblong or broadly obovate, (1–) 1.5–5 mm, usually shorter than sepals, apex rounded to ± retuse;
    stamens (5–) 10–20 (–25);
    styles subapical, conic-tapered, slightly to strongly papillate-swollen ± whole length, 0.5–0.8 mm.
    Achenes smooth to strongly rugose.