Potentilla brunnescens Rydberg (Q3994)

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Potentilla brunnescens is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Graciles
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Potentilla brunnescens Rydberg
Potentilla brunnescens is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Graciles

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    taxon/id/Potentilla brunnescens Rydberg
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    Potentilla brunnescens Rydberg
    Potentilla brunnescens
    Rydberg
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Potentilla brunnescens
    brownish cinquefoil (English)
    potentille brunissante (French)
    Flowering summer.
    vernally moist rocky flats
    sagebrush benchlands
    slopes
    400–3100 m
    Glands conspicuous, usually golden.
    Stems ascending to nearly erect, (1.5–) 3–7 dm.
    Basal leaves sometimes 2-ranked, palmate, (5–) 10–30 cm;
    petiole (1.5–) 5–25 (–50) cm, long hairs sparse to abundant, appressed to spreading, 1–2 mm, ± stiff, short, crisped, and cottony hairs absent, glands ± abundant;
    leaflets (5–) 7–9, at tip of leaf axis, separate to slightly overlapping, largest ones oblanceolate-elliptic to narrowly obovate, (2–) 5–10 × 1–4 cm, margins flat to ± revolute, distal 3/4 to nearly whole length ± evenly incised (1/4–) 1/2–3/4+ to midvein, undivided medial blade 2–15 (–20) mm wide, teeth (5–) 7–10 per side, linear to broadly lanceolate, 3–15 mm, surfaces ± similar, abaxial paler, green, not glaucous, long hairs sparse to common, short-crisped hairs absent or sparse, cottony hairs absent, glands ± abundant.
    Cauline leaves 1–3 (–4).
    Inflorescences 12–30 (–70) -flowered.
    Pedicels 0.2–1 (–4) cm.
    Flowers: epicalyx bractlets lanceolate to elliptic, 3–6 × 1–2 mm, hairs sparse to common, loosely appressed to spreading, glands common to abundant;
    hypanthium 4–6 (–8) mm diam.;
    sepals 4–8 (–9) mm, apex acute to acuminate;
    petals 6–9 × 6–10 mm;
    filaments 1–2 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm;
    carpels 30–60, styles filiform-tapered, papillate-swollen proximally, 1.5–2 mm.