Potentilla gerardiana from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Potentilla gerardiana Lindl. (syn: P. fragarioides Hook.f. (non L.), locally common in meadows, roadsides and hill slopes. Similar to P. supina in pinnate leaves, leaflets 5-9, all leaflets similar, but flowers are larger about 1.5 cm across , petals longer than sepals and leaves long hairy. Photographed from Pahalgam on June 20, 2010.

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[tanay bose]

Nice and details catch Sir Ji

tanay

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[Gurcharan Singh]

As written in separate mail I think this to Potentilla clarkei now

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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please.

Some earlier relevant feedback from another thread:

"Having uploaded the photographs of Potentilla gerardiana (syn: P. fragarioides) from Kashmir I was had found large stipules of the plant to be unusual.
Now having seen the specimens uploaded by Ritesh ji from Manali region which I think truly belong to P. gerardiana (syn: P. fragarioides; only species with pinnate leaves (not interruptly pinnate) and larger petals reported by Collet in Fl. Simlensis):

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12be1a095cf14cc3

This leads me to rethink about the identity of my plant from Kashmir and am inclined to identify it with Potentilla clarkei, a species reported from Srinagar in FBI (page 351, S. No. 17).
The species is characterised by "Plant stout, with long spreading hairs, stipules large, leafy, lower leaflets smaller, inflorescence stiff with divaricate branches, bracts forming an involucre, petals yellow, obovate, stamens numerous" 

I am uploading the photographs again for your valuable comments." from Singh ji.

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From: Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com>
Date: 19 August 2010 09:03
Subject: [efloraofindia:44776] Potentilla gerardiana from Kashmir
To: efloraofindia <indian...@googlegroups.com>, Flowers of India <flowers...@gmail.com>

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Resurfacing again for ID confirmation as P. clarkei.

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