Potentilla foersteriana

Primary tabs

Potentilla foersteriana

Description

Leaves pinnate, 2-13 cm long, petiole up to 1.5 cm. Stipules membranous, long-hairy below, at least in the central part Leaflets (5-)8-16 pairs, elliptic to ovate, base rounded to cordate, often unequal, pinnatisect to pinnatipartite, rarely with small intermediary leaflets. Flowers (4-)5(-6)-merous. Sepals triangular, 2-4.5 by 1-3 mm, acute, indumentum as epicalyx. Petals elliptic to obovate, 3-7 by 1.5-3.5 mm, yellow. Stamens 5-10, filaments up to 1.5 mm, anthers c. 0.8 mm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
New Guinea.

Notes

Potentilla brassii was reduced to a variety of the present species in Kalkman (1968), but reinstated as a species in 1989.

Citation

P. van Royen 1983: p. 2434. – In: Alpine Fl. New Guinea: pl. 172, f. 717
Kalkman 1968 – In: Blumea: 341
Steenis 1934 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg in: 242