Anemone rupestris
Wallich [Cat. 167, no. 4696. 1831, nom. nud.] ex Hook. f. &
Thomson, Fl. Ind. 21.
1855, p. p. & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 9. 1872, p. p.; Bruehl in Ann. R.
Bot. Gard. Calc. 5: 79. 1896. A. rupestris var. wallichii Bruehl, l. c. 5: 80. 1896. A. rupestris
var. pusilla Bruehl, l. c. 5: 81, t. 107, ff. 2, 5, 6 & 12. 1896. A.
rupestris subsp. gelida
(Maxim.) Lauenervar. wallichii (Bruehl) Lauener in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 23: 200.
1960.
Herbs, with slender fibrous rootstock covered upwards by a few fibrous old sheaths.
Radical leaves 4 -
8, crowded; petioles 3 -
7 cm long, with membranous sheaths at base;
lamina broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, 5 -
15 mm across, 3-partite, 3-sect or 3-foliolate,
each divided into toothed segments, sparsely hairy on both surfaces. Scapes slender, 3 -
18 cm long; involucral leaves 3, whorled, inserted at the middle or above the middle of
scape, sessile or connate at base,5 -
12 mm long; pedicels 1.5 -
7 cm long. Flowers solitary,
erect, 2 -
3 cm across, white or purplish or rarely reddish on lower surface. Sepals elliptic,
6 -
10 x 2 -
6 mm, white or purplish. Stamens 6 -
18; anthers bluish. Carpels asymmetric.
Achenes elliptic, ca 2 mm long, compressed; beak ca 1 mm long, straight.
KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES
| 1 a. Lateral leaflets of mature leaves 3 - 9-toothed | 12.1. gelida |
| b. LateralleaOets of mature leaves 10 - 21 -toothed | 12.2. rupestris |
