Potentilla heterosepala Fritsch

Potentilla heterosepala Pritsch, Bot. Jahrb. 11 : 314. 1890
Poteniilla dichotoma Galeotti ; L,ehm. Rev. Potent. 204. 1856. Not P. dichotoma Moench. 1794. Potentilla heterosepala guatemalensis Fritsch, Bot. Jahrb. 11 : 315. 1890. Potentilla heterosepala mexicana Fritsch, Bot. Jahrb. 11 : 315. 1890. Potentilla Donne ll-Smithii Focke, Bot. Gaz. 16 : 3. 1891.
Perennial, with a thick root and cespitosecaudex; stems several, 4-5 dmC long, leafy, slender, decumbent, strigose and slightly glandular ; basal leaves numerous, pinnate ; leaflets 3-7, cuneate-obovate or broadly obovate, subincised-crenate, 10-15 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, pilose on both sides, the terminal slightly stalked ; petioles about 2 cm. long; stipules entire, adnate, acuminate ; stem-leaves ternate with shorter petioles ; inflorescence leafy ; hypanthium hirsute ; bractlets 3 -cleft, seldom entire, oblong-elliptic, obtuse ; sepals triangular, acute or short-acuminate ; both in fruit incurved and enclosing the carpels ; petals cuneate-obovate, emarginate, half longer than the sepals or more ; flowers 1 cm. in diameter.
Type locality : Volcan de Agua near Santa Maria, Guatemala.
Distribution : Mountains of Guatemala and southern Mexico.