Potentina inclinata, Vili.

21. P. inclinata Vili. , Hist. Pl. Dauph. 3: 567 (1788)

(P. canescens Besser ).

Erect or ascending perennial. Flowering stems 15-50 cm, terminal, tomentose and with patent, long, simple hairs. Leaves digitate; leaflets 5-7, 15-40x 5-15 mm, oblongobovate, incise-dentate or -serrate, or pinnatifid with up to 12 pairs of teeth, tomentose beneath and with long simple hairs on the veins. Flowers numerous. Sepals ovate; epicalyx-segments linear, as long as sepals. Petals 5-7 mm, yellow, slightly longer than sepals. Style conical-filiform. 2« = 42. S. & C. Europe, extending northeastwards to C. Ukraine. Al Au Bu Cz G a Ge G r He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (W, K, E) Tu.

Very variable in the density of the indumentum and in the division of the leaflets. It is intermediate between the P. argentea group and 28 and may represent another apomictic hybrid complex.

P. pindicola (Nyman) Hausskn. , Mitt. Thür. Bot. Ver. nov. ser., 5: 95 (1893) (P. virescens (Boiss.) Halâcsy ), from S.E. Europe, is like 21 but has epicalyx-segments linear-lanceolate, slightly longer than sepals, and petals sometimes up to 12 mm. It appears to be intermediate between the P. argentea group and 26 or 27.