Botanical name: Potentilla grisea    Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Potentilla grisea var. ripcola

Turkistan Cinquefoil is perennial herb found in the region which was historically known as Turkistan which includes Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and neighboring region. Flowers are borne in aggregate heads, 1.2-1.5 cm diameter. Petals are about 7 mm long and broad, inverted-heart-shaped, notched, yellow. Sepals are densely silky, outer sepals linear, blunt, inner a little longer, ovate, pointed. Stamens are about 20. Stem is 10-20 cm long, woolly. Leaves are ternate, mostly basal, leaf-stalks 3-7 cm long, woolly. Basal stipules are adnate with oblong-ovate ears, reddish-brown, upper stipules ovate, greyish-green. Leaflets are 3, 1.3-2.7 x 1.0-2.5 cm, obovate-wedge-shaped, nearly 1/3 divided, 12-18 toothed, upper surface greyish-green with woolly and shiny hairy indumentum intermixed, lower surface densly dull-white grey-woolly with long adpressed hairy indumentum on the veins. Turkistan Cinquefoil is a very high alpine perennial herb, common in open sunny places at altitudes of 3000-3500 m, in Kirgizstan, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, West Himalaya.

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