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Alchemilla vulgaris

Description

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Genus Alchemilla

Herbs perennial (rarely annual ), with woody rhizome. Stems decumbent to erect . Leaves stipulate , long petiolate ; stipules adnate to sheathing petiole ; leaf blade simple , ± orbicular , margin lobed , digitate, or palmately parted . Inflorescences usually dense corymbs, rarely lax cymes or a solitary flower, ebracteate . Flowers very small, bisexual . Hypanthium urceolate , persistent , with constricted throat . Sepals 4(or 5), valvate ; epicalyx segments 4(or 5), alternating with sepals. Petals absent. Disk lining hypanthium, margin thickened. Stamens (1-) 4; filaments free , short. Carpel 1(-4), sessile or substipitate, free; ovule ascending from base of locule; style basal or adaxial , filiform , glabrous ; stigma capitellate . Achene 1(-4), enclosed in membranous hypanthium. Seed basal; testa membranous; cotyledons cylindric-obovoid. x = 8.

Between 100 and 300 species: frigid and temperate regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and America, extending to alpine areas in the tropics; three species in China.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,500 meters (0 to 8,202 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Alchemilla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1524 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. abchasica · A. aberdarensis · A. abyssinica · A. abyssinica f. muscoidea · A. abyssinica forma muscoidea · A. abyssinica var. schimperi · A. achilleaefolia · A. achilleifolia · A. achtarowii · A. acrodon · A. acropsila · A. acrostegia · A. acuminatidens · A. acutata · A. acutidens · A. acutidens oxyodonta · A. acutiformis · A. acutiloba · A. acutiloba f. adpressepilosa · A. acutiloba forma adpressepilosa · A. adelodictya · A. adolfi-friederici · A. adscendens · A. aemula · A. aenostipula · A. aequatoriensis · A. aequidens · A. aff. venosa · A. affinis · A. aggregata · A. akdoganica · A. aksharmae · A. alata · A. alba · A. albanica · A. albinervia · A. alexandri · A. algida · A. alluaudi · A. alneti · A. alniformis · A. alpestris · A. alpestris f. aestivalis · A. alpestris f. autumnalis · A. alpestris f. latiloba · A. alpestris forma aestivalis · A. alpestris forma autumnalis · A. alpestris forma latiloba · A. alpestris var. connivens · A. alpestris var. obtusa · A. alpigena · A. alpina (Mountain Lady's-Mantle) · A. alpina alpina · A. alpina anisiaca · A. alpina assurgens · A. alpina asterophylla · A. alpina basaltica · A. alpina catalaunica · A. alpina conjuncta · A. alpina eualpina · A. alpina hoppeana · A. alpina semiserrata · A. alpina subsericea · A. alpina subsp. asterophylla · A. alpina subsp. catalaunica · A. alpina subsp. transiens · A. alpina subvar. truncata · A. alpina transiens · A. alpina var. alpigena · A. alpina var. asterophylla · A. alpina var. basaltica · A. alpina var. conjuncta · A. alpina var. corsica · A. alpina var. debilicaulis · A. alpina var. dubia · A. alpina var. glomerata · A. alpina var. godetii · A. alpina var. grossidens · A. alpina var. hoppeana · A. alpina var. hybrida · A. alpina var. leptoclada · A. alpina var. opaca · A. alpina var. pallens · A. alpina var. podophylla · A. alpina var. saxatilis · A. alpina var. saxetana · A. alpina var. sericea · A. alpina var. subsericea · A. alpina var. transiens · A. alpina var. vaccariana · A. alpina var. vestita · A. altaica · A. amani · A. amardica · A. amauroptera · A. ambigens · A. amblyodes · A. amicorum · A. amoena · A. amphibola

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Notes

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Contributors

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Footnotes

  1. Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Alchemilla". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 388. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 281.610 meters (923.917 feet), Standard Deviation = 276.760 based on 9,427 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009