Anemone trullifolia
Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 22. 1855 & Fl. Brit. India 1:
9. 1872.
Herbs, densely hairy; rootstock stout, bearing fibrous leaf-remains. Radical leaves simple, pubescent with silky hairs on both surfaces, broadly ovate, cuneate-obovate or
orvicular 3-lobed or subtrilobed, or oblong-elliptic and entire or with 3 coarse subacute teeth at apex, 1.5 -
6 x 0.7 -
1.8 cm, 1 -
3 times as long as broad; lobes coarsely toothed;
petioles up to 15 cm long. Scapes erect or ascending, 1 - 3-flowered, (3-)5 -
20(-50) cm
long; involucral bracts sessile, not divided, entire or shallowly toothed, 10 - 30 x 3 - 10 mm; pedicels 1 - 6(-15) cm long. Flowers solitary or 1 - 3, golden yellow, often purplish
outside. Sepals obovate or elliptic, 7 -
10(-15) x 3 -
8(-10) mm. Stamens many, much
shorter than sepals. Carpels densely hirsute. Achenes strigose, narrowly ovate, ca 3 x
1 mm, compressed, densely brown hairy; beak ca 2 mm long, hooked.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves usually more than 3 times as long as broad; lamina linear-spathulate, entire or 3-toothed at apex, not clearly 3-lobed | 16.1. linearis |
| b. Leaves normally 1 - 2 times as long as broad; lamina broadly ovate, obovate or orbicular, clearly 3-lobed with toothed lobes | 16.2. trullifolia |
