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Potentilla argentea L.

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Potentilla argentea L.
Potentilla argentea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Potentilla argentea L.
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Potentilla argentea

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argentea

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Potentilla argentea L.

Ascending to erect perennial herb up to c. 50 cm tall, with branches arising from a stout, woody stock; stems ± woody, brown to reddish purple, white-tomentose. Lvs both basal and cauline; petiole up to 20-(55) mm long, pilose; blade reniform, palmate; leaflets usually 5, oblanceolate to obovate, sessile, (5)-8-16-(24) × 3-15 mm, dark green to greyish and usually glabrate to sparsely hairy, rarely moderately hairy above, densely white- to grey-tomentose below; margins recurved, with 1-3 pairs of teeth in upper 1/2, sometimes ± pinnatifid; upper cauline lvs becoming ± sessile, smaller and often finally 3-fid; stipules lanceolate, white-tomentose below, acuminate and sometimes with 1-(2) teeth. Fls in diffuse, terminal cymes, 5-merous. Epicalyx segments subulate, 1.5-3 mm long, acute, entire. Sepals ovate-triangular, = or slightly > epicalyx segments, sparsely to densely tomentose, connate at base. Petals broadly obovate, 2-4-(5) mm long, yellow, very shallowly emarginate or rounded. Style filiform-conic. Achenes ± smooth or slightly reticulate, not winged, 0.7-1 mm long.

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Potentilla argentea L.
Potentilla argentea L.

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Potentilla argentea L.
New Zealand
Potentilla argentea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Potentilla argentea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Potentilla argentea L.
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
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