Potentilla libanotica

Arap parmakotu

Erect pilose, glandular perennial, 5-20 cm, with a woody caudex. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets broadly ovate to rotundate, 15-25 x 10-20 mm, cuneate-obtuse at base, crenate at apex or up to halfway down to the base, sparsely adpressed-villous, green, with scattered subsessile glands. Flowers in terminal cymes, shortly pedicellate. Epicalyx segments lanceolate. Sepals ovate, 4-6,5 mm, acuminate. Petals white, obovate to ovate, 5-7,5 mm, obtuse at apex, longer than sepals. Achenes pubescent; style subterminal, filiform, twice as long as achene. Fl. 7-8. On rocks, 1500-2000 m.

Latakia, Lebanon. E. Medit. element.