Scientific name: Alchemilla minima Walters.
Diagnostic features
Plant small.
Leaves differ from those of Alchemilla filicaulis in lobes usually 5, with sinuses between them with toothless region at base twice as long as or longer than a tooth.
Whole plant except sometimes pedicels pubescent, but more sparsely so than in Alchemilla filicaulis vestita.
Chromosome number: 2n=c.103-108.
Habitat
Native; very local on 2 hills in Midwest Yorks, described 1949; endemic.
This species is keyed out on Page 2236 and on Page 2244 in the Text Key.
Note
Possibly better as a ssp. of Alchemilla filicaulis.
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. |
