Potentilla leschenaultiana - Nilgiri Cinquefoil

Nilgiri Cinquefoil is a robust, runner forming, hairy herb, with several shoots, radiating rising up, up to 30-45 cm. Flowers are borne in corymbs, up to 30-45 cm, carried on flower-cluster-stalk up to 10 cm. Flowers are 1.2 cm wide, petals 5, obovate, bright yellow, 5 x 4 mm, flat, shallowly ntched. Sepals are 5, lanceshaped, 5 x 3 mm, bristly outside. Stamens are about 20; filaments nearly equal. Pistils numerous; ovary ovoid; style slender. Flower-stalks are up to 1.5 cm; bracts lanceshaped, 5 mm. Leaves are odd-pinnate, mostly 5-foliolate, up to 6 x 4 cm, papery, coarsely toothed, whitish below; leaf-stalks 4-10 cm, slender; end leaflet obovate, 3 x 1.5 cm; laterals oblique, to 1.8 x 1 cm; leaflet-stalks 2 mm. Achene cluster on rounded receptacle, 4 mm wide. Nilgiri Cinquefoil is found in Peninsular India, particularly Nilgiri hills.