Potentilla

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Potentilla anserina L. (Temp. Northern Hemisphere to N. Mexico: Afghanistan, Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Ukraine, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon as per POWO)

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Potentilla atrosanguinea Lodd. ex D. Don var. argyrophylla (Wall. ex Lehm.) Grierson & D. G. Long (Afghanistan to Himalaya and Tibet: Afghanistan, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Potentilla atrosanguinea Lodd. ex D. Don var. atrosanguinea (Himalaya to Tibet: East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Potentilla biflora Willd. ex Schltdl. (Siberia to Russian Far East and Himalaya, Subarctic America to W. Canada: Alaska, Altay, British Columbia, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Nepal, Northwest Territorie, Nunavut, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Tuva, West Himalaya, Yukon as per POWO)

 

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Potentilla clarkei Hook.f. (Jammu & Kashmir as per CoL)

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Potentilla cuneata Wallich ex Lehmann (Afghanistan to W. & S. Central China, Taiwan: Afghanistan, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, Qinghai, Taiwan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Potentilla desertorum Bunge (Afghanistan to Siberia and W. Himalaya: Afghanistan, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO)

   

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Potentilla doubjonneana Cambess. (Tajikistan, Jammu & Kashmir as per Catalogue of Life)

Potentilla gerardiana Lindl. ex Lehm. (Afghanistan to W. Himalaya, Assam (Mizoram): Afghanistan, Assam, Pakistan, West Himalaya as per POWO)

       

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Potentilla indica (Andr.) Wolf (Afghanistan to Russian Far East and Malesia: Afghanistan, Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Manchuria, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Potentilla kashmirica Hook.f. (Jammu & Kashmir (Kashmir), Pakistan (Chitral, Swat, Kohistan) as per Catalogue of Life)

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Potentilla leschenaultiana ?

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Potentilla lineata Trevir. (Himalaya to S. Central China and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)

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Potentilla lineata ?

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Potentilla microphylla D. Don (Himalaya to Tibet and N. Myanmar as per POWO)

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Potentilla multifida L. aggregate (France, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Gruziya, E-European Russia, Latvia (introduced), Siberia (W-Siberia, C-Siberia), Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Iran (EC-Iran), Afghanistan (Badakshan, Wakhan, Baghlan, Bamyan, Ghazni, Ghorat, Kabul, Kunar / Nuristan, Logar, Wardak, Parwan, Takhar), Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Rupshu, Leh, Zanskar, Kashmir), N-India, Pakistan (Kurram, Chitral), Pakistani Kashmir (Deosai, Gilgit, Astor), China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, North Korea, Mongolia as per Catalogue of Life)

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Potentilla pamirica Th.Wolf (Tajikistan (Pamir Alai), S.W.Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir and China (Zizang and Kunlun Shan) as per Flora of Pakistan)

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Potentilla spodiochlora Soják (Central & E. Himalaya: East Himalaya, Nepal as per POWO)

    

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Potentilla sundaica (Bl.) Kuntze (Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China, Sumatera to Jawa: Assam, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)

Potentilla supina L. (Temp. & Subtropical Northern Hemisphere, N. & S. Africa: Afghanistan, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Assam, Austria, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Free State, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Magadan, Manchuria, Manitoba, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, New Mexico, New York, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territorie, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Romania, Saskatchewan, Sinai, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia as per POWO)

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Materials & methods. Delimitation of the family Rosaceae Juss. Delimitation of the tribes and subtribes. Taxonomic treatment. I. Genus Potentilla L. 1. Origin of the genus. 2. Ancestral relationships of the genus. 3. Generic delimitation within Potentilla L. Sensu lato. 4. Significance of morphological characters. 5. Delimitation of infrageneric categories within Potentilla L. sensu stricto. 6. Systematic account. 7. Discussion. II. Genus Sibbaldia L. III. Genus Brachycaulos Dikshit & Panigrahi. Bibliography. Appendix. Subject index.

“The last great work on the taxonomy of the family Rosaceae Juss, sensu lato in the Indian region, was that of J.D. Hooker (1878). Wolfs (1908) monograph of the genus Potentilla L. comprising then 305 species in the world flora, did not include India, nor did the publications of J. Sojak of Czeckoslovakia, who meticulously studied the genus Potentilla over the last four decades and more. In this context, revisionary studies on as many as 24 of the 37 genera of the family within the political boundaries of India of today, published in four volumes, by G. Panigrahi and his Research Scholars, are of great significance and will of interest to all those interested in the flora of India and of the family Rosaceae in particular (see Robertson, 1991; Kalkman, 1993, 1996; Vaughan, 1993; Schmid 1993, 1997 and Sojak, 1997. Kalkman (1995) commends these studies as “thorough piece (s) of research” and which would “serve as model for regional revisionary” researches, both in India and abroad.