Alchemilla reniformis, 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 : 60

80. A. reniformis Buser , Alchim. Valais. 23 (1894).

Robust; stems up to 40 cm, ascending, usually not greatly exceeding leaves, with subappressed hairs on lower half. Leaves reniform, with wide sinus, thick, glabrous above, with subappressed hairs beneath only on veins, very shallowly lobed to c. |; lobes 9, short, wide, obtuse, with no incisions and 7-9 rather wide, subequal teeth. Petioles with more or less dense, appressed hairs. Inflorescence diffuse, with divaricate branches. Flowers 4-5 mm wide; sepals up to 2 mm, not longer than wide, rounded. • Alps; Sudeten Mountains; W. Carpathians; mountains o f Jugoslavia. Au Cz Ga Ge It Ju Po.

Resembles species of Subser. Glabrae in robust habit and texture of leaves. Plants from the W. Carpathians previously referred to this species have very recently been distinguished as A. obsoleta Fröhner , Preslia 38: 323 (1966). They have leaf-lobes with very unequal teeth and triangular, acute sepals longer than wide.