Common Names
Common Names in English:
Vahl's Cinquefoil
Description
Genus Potentilla
Herbs perennial
, rarely biennial, annual
, or shrubs
, if perennial then with ± tufted
, scaly
rootstock
. Stems erect
, ascending
, or prostrate
. Leaves pinnate or palmately compound
; stipules ± adnate
to petiole
. Inflorescence often cymose
or cymose-paniculate, or 1-flowered. Flowers usually bisexual
. Hypanthium concave
, mostly hemispheric
. Sepals 5, valvate
; epicalyx
segments 5, alternating with sepals. Petals 5, often yellow, rarely white or purple. Stamens usually ca.
20 in 3 series of 10, 5, and 5, rarely fewer or more (11-30) ; anthers
2-loculed. Carpels usually numerous
, free
, inserted
on slightly elevated
receptacle; ovule ascending or pendulous, anatropous
, amphitropous
, or suborthotropous; style
subterminal
, lateral
, or basal. Achenes numerous, inserted on dry receptacle with persistent
sepals. Seed testa membranous. x
= 7.
About 500 species: mostly in temperate
, arctic
, and alpine
zones of the N hemisphere, a few in the S hemisphere; 86 species (22 endemic) in China.Li Chaoluan (Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Potentilla". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 291. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Rosales
()
- Family:
Pyraloidea
()
- Subfamily:
Rosoideae
()
- Tribe:
Potentilleae
()
- Genus:
Potentilla
()
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 495. 1753.
- Cinquefoil
- Specific epithet:
vahliana
- Lehm.
- Botanical name: - Potentilla vahliana Lehm.
- Specific epithet:
vahliana
- Lehm.
- Genus:
Potentilla
(
- Tribe:
Potentilleae
(
- Subfamily:
Rosoideae
(
- Family:
Pyraloidea
(
- Order:
Rosales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Potentilla
There are approximately 4008 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
P. 'Arc-en-ciel' · P. 'Baby Bethan' · P. 'Blazeaway' · P. 'Congo' · P. 'Coronation Triumph' · P. 'Craigieburn Cochineal' · P. 'Custard and Cream' · P. 'Cyril' · P. 'Daphne' · P. 'Emilie' · P. 'Esta Ann' · P. 'Etna' · P. 'Everest' · P. 'Fireflame' · P. 'Flambeau' · P. 'Flamenco' · P. 'Gibson's Scarlet' · P. 'Gloire de Nancy' · P. 'Gold Clogs' · P. 'Gold Kugel' · P. 'Hamlet' · P. 'Helen Jane' · P. 'Herzblut' · P. 'Jack Elliot' · P. 'Light My Fire' · P. 'Mandshurica' · P. 'Maynard's' · P. 'Melton Fire' · P. 'Melton' · P. 'Monarch's Velvet' · P. 'Monsieur Rouillard' · P. 'Mont d'Or' · P. 'Olympic Mountains' · P. 'Orange Glow' · P. 'Pheasant Eye' · P. 'Pink Orleans' · P. 'Pink Panther' · P. 'Roulette' · P. 'Roxanne' · P. 'Songbird' · P. 'Southcombe White' · P. 'Strawberry Temptation' · P. 'Suke' · P. 'Sungold' · P. 'Sutton's Salmon Beauty' · P. 'Twinkling Star' · P. 'Versicolor Plena' · P. 'Volcan' · P. 'White Beauty' · P. 'White Queen' · P. 'William Rollison' · P. 'William Rollisson' (Cinquefoil) · P. 'Yellow Queen' · P. 869b · P. abbreviata · P. abnormis · P. absinthifolia · P. absinthiifolia · P. abyssinica · P. acaulis · P. acaulis acaulis · P. acaulis arenaria · P. acaulis cinerea · P. acaulis pusilla · P. acaulis subsp. arenaria · P. acaulis subsp. cinerea · P. acaulis subsp. tommasiniana · P. acaulis subsp. velutina · P. acaulis tommasiniana · P. acaulis velutina · P. acuminata (Tapertip Cinquefoil) · P. acutifida · P. acutifolia · P. adamsiana · P. adenotricha · P. adinophylla · P. adnata · P. adpressa · P. adscendens · P. adscendens f. fallax · P. adscharica · P. adscharica f. amblyodonta · P. adscharica f. parviflora · P. adscharica f. polyodonta · P. adscharica f. schistosepala · P. adscharica f. typica · P. adscharica f. vulgata · P. adscharica forma amblyodonta · P. adscharica forma hirsutissima · P. adscharica forma parviflora · P. adscharica forma polyodonta · P. adscharica forma schistosepala · P. adscharica forma typica · P. adscharica forma vulgata · P. adscharica var. gymnosepala · P. adscharica var. trichosepala · P. adulterina · P. aemulans var. incisa · P. aetnea · P. aff. cuneata
Bibliography
- 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.
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 10, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
- IOPI Global Plant Checklist 2005.
- IOPI-GPC
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 10, 2007:
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
- University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium
- University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7489848
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: IOP-570929
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13688575
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:729189-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 24758
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: POVA4
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 55379
