Alchemilla grossidens, Buser

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 53

12. A. grossidens Buser , Not. Alchim. 6 (1891)

( A. hoppeana subsp. grossidens (Buser) Gams ).

Leaves suborbicular, greygreen and only sparsely sericeous beneath; segments 7, obovate, subtruncate, the middle segment almost free, with conspicuous straight teeth up to 3 mm. In = 64. • Alps, eastwards to c. 10° E. in Austria. Au Ga Ge He It.

Related species include:

A. glacialis Buser , Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, 5: 514 (1905). S. E. Alps. He It.

A. jugensis (Buser) Maillefer , Mém. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. 8: 120 (1944). S. W. & W.C. Alps (Haute Savoie, Vaud). Ga He.

A. grossidens and A. glacialis have been shown to be sexual species, and the latter seems to hybridize freely with A. pentaphyllea on the Gemmijoch. The whole group may well have originated by hybridization between A. pentaphyllea and members of Ser. Hoppeanae . See also 6.

A. catalaunica Rothm. , Bol. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 34: 150 (1934), described from the Spanish Pyrenees, and A. petiolulans Buser , Bull. Soc. Nat. Ain 13: 24 (1903), described from Switzerland, have the prominent teeth of 12, but the leaves have dense, sericeous hairs beneath.