Aphanes microcarpa, (Boiss. & Reuter) Rothm.

2. A. microcarpa (Boiss. & Reuter) Rothm. View in CoL , Feddes Repert. 42: 172 (1937)

( A. arvensis auct. pro parte, non L.).

Like 1 but usually more slender and of a purer green; lobes of stipules oblong, usually almost as long as the entire portion; fruiting hypanthium (l-)L 4-l-9 mm, often not protruding beyond stipules; sepals connivent. 2« = 16. Open habitats on sandy, usually acid soils. Europe northwards to Scotland and S. Sweden, and eastwards to N.E. Poland, the Carpathians and the Adriatic; a few isolated stations in the Balkan peninsula. Al Au Az Be BrBuCo Cz Da Ga Ge Gr Hb He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Po Rm Sa Si Su Tu.

A sexual species, closely related to 1.

Plants from Corse have been distinguished as var. bonifaciensis Buser ; they differ in their smaller flowers and fruiting hypanthia and in their diffuse, branched habit. An even smaller-flowered variant is Alchemilla minutiflora Aznav. , Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 46: 141 (1899), described from Turkey-in-Europe. At present, it seems best to include all such plants from S. Europe in 2.