Scientific name: Alchemilla wichurae (Buser) Stefánsson.
Diagnostic features
Plant rather small.
Leaf-lobes 7-11, very rounded with deep narrow sinuses separating them, with 15-19 strongly incurved acute teeth.
Basal sinus narrow to closed.
Lowest 2(-3) stem-internodes and petioles appressed-pubescent.
Leaves pubescent on lowerside veins,glabrous otherwise.
Middle and upper parts of stem and whole inflorescence glabrous.
Chromosome number: (2n=64, c.103-107).
Habitat
Native.
Distribution
Local in North England and Scotland, introduced in Northwest Wales.
This species is keyed out on Page 2233 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. |
