Anemone demissa
Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 23. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1:
9. 1872. A. demissa vars. connectans, macrantha, monantha, umbellata & villosissima
Bruehl in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 5: 81. 1896. A. narcissiflora L. var. demissa (Hook. f.
& Thomson) Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 51: 74. 1904, p. p.
Herbs with monopodial woody rootstock, surrounded by fibrous leaf remnants;
Items (flower-bearing shoots) erect, ascending or decumbent. Radical leaves broadly
ovate, 3-sect or twice temately divided; segments more or less overlapping, broadly ovate
or rhombic, cuneate, 1.5 - 2.5 cm across, coarsely crenate-serrate, densely villous;
petioles 3 -
10 cm long, usually with white spreading hairs. Scapes 5 -
30 cm long, densely
white hairy, 3 -
6-flowered in simple umbels, rarely 1-flowered; pedicels 2 - 4 cm long;
involucral leaves 3, whorled, sessile, 3-partite or incised, 1 -
2 cm long. Flowers 2 -
3 cm
across, white or pale blue to white inside and bluish or yellowish blue outside. Sepals
elliptic, 7 -
15 x 3.5 -
5 mm. Filaments broadly linear to oblanceolate; anthers blackish.
Carpels ovate or oblong, orbicular, elliptic, compressed, surrounded by ca 2 mm broad
wing, 5 -
7 x 3.5 -
5 mm, glabrous; beak minute, hooked.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Scapes erect, 10 - 30 cm long; leaf-lobes overlapping; flowers many in umbels | 2.1. demissa |
| b. Scapes suberect or decumbent, 5 - 12 cm long leaf-lobes not overlapping; flowers solitary | 2.2. monantha |
