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Potentilla recta L.

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Potentilla recta L.
Potentilla recta L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Potentilla recta L.
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Potentilla recta

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recta

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Potentilla recta L.

Erect, somewhat stout perennial herb up to 60-(80) cm tall at flowering; stems green or reddish, clothed with short and long pilose hairs and glands. Lvs mostly cauline, those of the lower ⅓ often withering by anthesis; petiole up to 130 mm long, pilose and glandular; blade orbicular, palmate; leaflets (5)-7, oblong-obovate to linear-lanceolate, sessile, (15)-25-65-(110) × 5-15-(25) mm, sparsely to moderately covered in pilose and short hairs on both surfaces or with only short hairs on upper; margins deeply serrate or occasionally almost pinnatisect, with 8-12-(17) pairs of teeth on terminal leaflet; stipules long-triangular, acute, with up to 3 teeth; upper lvs reduced with fewer narrower leaflets, finally ± sessile. Fls 5-merous, many in lax, terminal cymes. Epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate, acute, entire. Sepals ± narrow-ovate, c. 4-6 mm long, pilose with longer hairs scattered among shorter hairs, c. = epicalyx segments, connate at base. Petals obovate, (5)-7-10-(12) mm long, pale yellow, deeply emarginate. Styles filiform. Achenes reticulate, narrowly winged, c. 1.2-1.8 mm long.

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Potentilla recta L.
Potentilla recta L.

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Potentilla recta L.
Nepal
Potentilla recta L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Potentilla recta L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Potentilla recta L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Potentilla recta L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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81ca5074-3af2-4bd5-b06b-3bf058cf4be7
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1 January 2000
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