Scientific name: Alchemilla micans Buser
Diagnostic features
Plant medium.
Leaf-lobes 9(-11), rounded but with rather narrow apex, with 11-15 acute unequal teeth.
Basal sinus rather narrow.
Leaves, petioles, stems and lower inflorescence-branches with erecto-patent to subappressed hairs.
Ultimate inflorescence-branches, pedicels and hypanthia glabrous.
Chromosome number: (2n=c.93-100, c.104-110).
Habitat
Native.
Distribution
Very local in South Northumb (discovered 1976), also once in Co Durham (1924) and casual in Lanarks in 1986 and 1992. In South Northumb it is the earliest species of the genus to flower.
This species is keyed out on Page 2232 and on Page 2241 in the Text Key.
Note
This species belongs to the Alchemilla vulgaris L. aggregate (Lady's-mantle). The species in this aggregate are particularly critical. They are characterized by the general description:
Stems to 60(80)cm, often much less, decumbent to ascending.
Leaves up to 7(10)cm, often much less, simple, palmately lobed less than1/2 way to base,glabrous to densely pubescent.
Habitat: Damp rich grassland, woodland margins and rides, rock-ledges.
Distribution: Throughout most of Britain and Ireland but rare or absent in most of Southeast England. |
