Alchemilla glomerulans, 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 : 59

69. A. glomerulans Buser , Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1, App. 2: 30 (1893).

Medium-sized, up to 40 cm, often robust; stems not much exceeding leaves, with subappressed hairs up to the main inflorescence-branches. Leaves reniform to suborbicular, lobed to |- (, often undulate when fresh; lobes usually 9, semicircular, often overlapping when dried, with no incisions and 7-9 wide teeth. Petioles and usually both leaf-surfaces with sparse to rather dense, subappressed hairs. Flowers in dense glomeruli; hypanthium and pedicels glabrous. 2« = 101-109, c. 144. Wet places, often in snow-patches. N. Europe, extending southwards in the mountains to the Pyrenees and C. Alps. Br Da Fe Ga He?Hs Is No Rs (N, B, C) Sb Su.

The indumentum of sub-appressed hairs, which extends into the inflorescence, distinguishes this species from all other widespread N. European species of Ser. Vulgares .

Related species include:

A. borealis Sam. ex Juz. in Pojark., FI. Murmansk. 4: 324 (1959). 2/z = 130—152. Arctic Fennoscandia. Fe Rs (N) Su.

A. kolaensis Juz. in Pojark., loc. cit. (1959). Arctic Russia (Murmanskaja Obi.). Rs (N).

A. obtusiformis Alechin in Govoruchin, FI. Urala 531 (1937). N. Ural. Rs (N).

A. transpolaris Juz. , Not. Syst. (Leningrad) 16: 179 (1954). Arctic Russia (Murmanskaja Obi.). Rs (N).