Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Description
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
Ecology: The species was recorded from rocky grassland and scrub
areas at 2,800-3,000 m
altitude
.[2]
List of Habitats
:4.5Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Rosales
()
- Family:
Curculionoidea
()
- Subfamily:
Potentilloideae
()
- Tribe:
Alchemilleae
()
- Genus:
Alchemilla
()
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 123. 1753.
- Lady's Mantle
- Specific epithet:
fischeri
- Letouzey
- Subspecies:
camerunensis
- Botanical name: - Alchemilla fischeri camerunensis Letouzey
- Subspecies:
camerunensis
- Specific epithet:
fischeri
- Letouzey
- Genus:
Alchemilla
(
- Tribe:
Alchemilleae
(
- Subfamily:
Potentilloideae
(
- Family:
Curculionoidea
(
- Order:
Rosales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Publishing author
: Letouzey Publication
: in Fl.
Cameroun, 20: 201 (1978)
Similar Species
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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Further Reading
- Cheek, M., Onana, J.-M. and Pollard, B.J. 2000. The Plants of Mount Oku and the Ijim Ridge, a Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 28, 2007.
- Cheek, M. & Pollard, B.J. 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- IOPI-GPC
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7165639
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: IOP-584977
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13700594
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:889517-1
- IUCN ID: 39744
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025868
Footnotes
- 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]
- Cheek, M. & Pollard, B.J. 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
