Thalictrum punduanum
Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 26. 1831; Hook. f. &
Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 13. 1872.
Herbs, erect, up to 60 cm high. Leaves ternate or biternate, long-petioled with
sheathing and auricled bases; upper leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets orbicular or broadly
obovate, 2.5 -
5 cm across, 5-lobed, coarsely crenate, rounded or cordate at base, finely
reticulate, glaucous or glandular-pubescent below; petioles 5 - 10 mm long. Flowers
white, in leafless much-branched corymbose panicles. Sepals narrowly elliptic, ca 5 x 3
mm. Stamens with filiform filaments; anthers oblong-elliptic, acute at apex. Achenes
20 -
30, almost sessile or shortly stipitate, ellipsoid, oblong, ca 2.5 mm, strongly ribbed,
glandular pubescent; beak 0.5 -
1 mm long.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves viscidly pubescent; achenes glandular hairy | 14.1. glandulosum |
| b. Leaves glaucous; achenes not glandular pubescent | 14.2. punduanum |
