Potentilla davisii

Efe parmakotu

Perennial with brownish woody caudex. Flowering stems 5-12 cm, villous with long eglandular and short glandular hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; petioles to 10 cm, villous with long eglandular and short glandular hairs; leaflets broadly obovate, 15-30 x 12-20 mm, cuneate at base, incised-serrate at apex, adpressed to spreading eglandular pilose and with scattered subsessile glands on both surfaces. Inflorescence loose, terminal, cymose; pedicels 10-30 mm, spreading long eglandular pilose and with sessile glands. Calyx spreading pilose and with sessile glands. Epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, acute. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, acuminate. Petals white, obovate to orbicular, 6-10 mm, obtuse, longer than the sepals. Filaments pilose in lower 2/3. Ovary pubescent. Achenes pubescent at dorsal surfaces and apex, scrobiculate-reticulate, orbicular to cylindrical; style glabrous, longer than achene, c.3 mm. Fl. and Fr. 7-8. Rocks, 1450-1750 m.

Endemic. E. Medit element.