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Sibbaldia procumbens

(Creeping Sibbaldia)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Chinese:

Shan Mei Cao

Common Names in English:

Creeping Sibbaldia, Creeping-Glow-Wort, Prostrate Sibbaldia, Sibbaldia

Description

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Family Rosaceae

Trees , shrubs , or herbs, deciduous or evergreen . Stems erect , scandent , arching , prostrate , or creeping , armed or unarmed . Buds usually with several exposed scales , sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound ; stipules paired , free or adnate to petiole , rarely absent, persistent or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade often serrate at margin , rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate , corymbose , racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic , bisexual , rarely unisexual and then plants dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate . Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed . Stamens usually numerous , rarely few, always in a complete ring at margin of or above disk; filaments usually free, very rarely connate ; anthers small, didymous , rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous , superposed . Styles as many as carpels, terminal , lateral , or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged , usually exalbuminous , very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy and convex abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.

Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan , mostly in N temperate zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.

Many plants of this family are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions . The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc. The dried fruits of the genera

Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry . Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals .

The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note that the patterns of relationship are complex and the group is taxonomically difficult. [1]

Genus Sibbaldia

Herbs perennial , often woody based. Flowering stems prostrate to erect . Leaves pinnate or palmately 3 5-foliolate; leaflets serrate at apex or margin , rarely entire. Inflorescence a cyme or solitary flower. Flowers usually bisexual , rarely unisexual . Hypanthium saucer-shaped or cupular. Sepals (4 or) 5, alternate, persistent ; epicalyx segments (4 or) 5. Petals (4 or) 5, yellow, purple-red, or white. Disk usually markedly broad, rarely not so. Stamens (4 or) 5( 10) ; anthers 2-loculed. Carpels 4 20, free ; ovule usually ascending ; style sub-basal, lateral , or subterminal . Achenes few, inserted on elevated , dry receptacle. x = 7.

About 20 species: arctic and alpine regions of N hemisphere; 13 species (four endemic) in China.[2]

Physical Description

Species Sibbaldia procumbens

Herbs perennial , woody based. Flowering stems prostrate or ascending , 4-30 cm tall, appressed pilose , or strigose throughout. Radical leaves 3-12 cm including petiole ; stipules brown, membranous; petiole pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets shortly petiolulate or subsessile , oblong or obovate , 1-3 × 0.6-1.5 cm, abaxially appressed pilose, adaxially sparsely pilose or sometimes glabrous , base cuneate, margin 3-5-dentate, apex truncate ; teeth triangular, rarely ovate and acute; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones but petiole shorter; stipules lanceolate or ovate, sparsely pilose, margin entire. Inflorescence terminal , compact , corymbose , 8-12-flowered. Flowers 4-6 mm in diam. Sepals ovate to triangular-ovate, apex acute; epicalyx segments much shorter than to nearly equaling sepals. Petals yellow, obovate-oblong, slightly or much shorter than sepals, apex rounded . Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral . Achenes glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug. [source]

Habit: Subshrub , Shrub , Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: June. • Flower Color: pale yellow

Size/Age/Growth

Size: under 6" tall.

Habitat

Forests , meadows on mountain slopes , dry mountain slopes, grasslands by lakes , rock crevices; 2400--4000 m. [3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,256 meters (0 to 13,963 feet).[4]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Coelas procumbens (L.) Dulac • Dactylophyllum sibbaldia Spenn. • Potentilla procumbens (L.) Clairv. • Potentilla sibbaldia Kurtz • Potentilla sibbaldii Haller F. • Sibbaldia procumbens var. valdehirta Ohwi

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Sibbaldia

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S. procumbens (Creeping Sibbaldia)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Sibbaldia". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. "Sibbaldia". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 330. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  4. Mean = 597.210 meters (1,959.350 feet), Standard Deviation = 423.980 based on 7,042 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012