Potentilla sundaica

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Potentilla sundaica

Description

Loose rosettes with erect to prostrate, often rooting, flowering stems, stolons (prostrate stems without normal leaves) sometimes present. Leaves palmately (pedately) 5-foliolate, petiole 6-40 cm long. Stipules 1.5-4 cm long, membranous, little hairy outside. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, compound dichasia, whole inflorescence up to 5-10 cm long. Sepals triangular, 2-3 by 1-2 mm, growing after anthesis, indumentum as epicalyx. Petals obovate, 3 -3.5 by 2-3 mm, yellow, falling early. Stamens 20 or few missing, filaments c. 1 mm, anthers c. 0.5 mm long.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Korea present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Laos (Laos present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present), Japan present, N Sumatra present, N Vietnam present, S China present, W and C Java present
India, Sri Lanka, S China, N Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Japan; Malesia: only in N Sumatra and W and C Java.

Citation

Backer & Bakh.f. 1964 – In: Fl. Java: 518
Steenis 1934 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: 243