Alchemilla plicatula, Gand.

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7. A. plicatula Gand. , Rad Jug. Akad. Znam. Umj. 66: 34 (1883)

( A. hoppeana subsp. asterophylla (Tausch) Gams ).

Leaves orbicular, densely sericeous beneath; segments 7(-9), lanceolate, with short, acute teeth, middle one usually completely free; segments in the young leaf usually distinctly folded along midrib. • Mountains of S. & S. C. Europe from the Alps and S. Carpathians to S. Spain and Albania. Al Au Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Rm.

Variable. The most widespread taxon is var. plicatula ( A. visianii Gand. , A. asterophylla (Tausch) Buser , A. alpigena Buser ), with the leaves glabrous above; in the south of the area is found var. vestita (Buser) Rothm. ( A. amphisericea Buser ), with the leaves more or less hairy above.

Related species with leaves glabrous above include:

A. buseri Maillefer , Mém. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. 8: 120 (1944). S. W. & W.C. Alps (Isère; Vaud). Ga He.

A. chirophylla Buser , Bull. Soc. Nat. Ain 13: 24 (1903). Jura (Ain). Ga.

A. florulenta Buser in Briq., Prodr. FI. Corse 2 (1): 205 (1913). Jura (Airi). Ga.

A. font-queri Rothm. , Boi. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 34: 151 (1934). S. Spain (Sierra Nevada). Hs.

A. nitida Buser , Bull. Soc. Nat. Ain 13: 33 (1903). From S.C. France to N. Italy. Ga He It.

A. scintillans Buser ex Jaquet , Mém. Soc. Fribourg. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 2: 62 (1907). Jura; W.C. Alps (Vaud). Ga He.

Related species with leaves hairy above include:

A. coruscans Buser in Dörfler, Herb. Norm. 47: 205 (1906). W.C. Alps (Isère). Ga.

A. murisserica Maillefer , Mém. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. 8: 123 (1944). W.C. Alps (Vaud). He.

A. petraea Buser ex Maillefer , loc. cit. 122 (1944). Jura (Airi). Ga.