Potentina nivea, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 41

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

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scientific name

Potentina nivea
status

 

15. P. nivea L. , Sp. Pl. 499 (1753).

Perennial up to 20 cm. Flowering stems subglabrous to white-tomentose. Leaves ternate; leaflets 7-25x6-15 mm, ovate or obovate, crenate-serrate with 7-13 teeth, densely white tomentose beneath, very sparsely pubescent above; petiole tomentose with only crispate hairs. Flowers up to 12 in a terminal cyme. Sepals lanceolate or ovate; epicalyxsegments linear or linear-lanceolate, as long as or shorter than sepals. Petals 6-9 mm, yellow, slightly longer than sepals. Style conical-filiform. 2/7 = 56. Spitsbergen; N. & W. Fennoscandia; Ural; Alps and N. Appennini . Au Ga Fe He It No Rs (N, C) Sb Su. Plants described as subsp. subquinata (Lange) Hultén , Bot. Not. 1945: 135 (1945) are apomictic, probably derived from hybridization between 15 and 16. They are intermediate between these two species.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Potentina

Loc

Potentina nivea

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

P. nivea

L. 1753: 499
1753
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