Potentina nivea, L.
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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.
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Potentina nivea
Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
P. nivea
L. 1753: 499 |