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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Potentilla elegans
|accepted_authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=2: 22. 1827
|year=1827
}}
|common_names=Elegant cinquefoil
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae;Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae;Potentilla;Potentilla sect. Aureae;Potentilla elegans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Potentilla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Potentilla sect. Aureae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Potentilla elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 188, 189, 195
|treatment_page=page 194
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely tufted to cushion-forming; caudex branches usually short, stout, sometimes embedded in old leaves. <b>Stems</b> erect, 0.1–0.5 dm, lengths 1–2 times leaves. <b>Basal</b> leaves not in ranks, ternate, 0.5–2.5(–4) cm; stipules: apex acute to obtuse; petiole 0.2–1.8(–2.5) cm, long hairs ± sparse, ± spreading, 0.2–1 mm, weak, glands sparse to abundant; leaflets 3, central obtriangular to flabellate, 0.5–0.7(–1) × 0.5–0.7 cm, petiolule 0–0.5 mm, margins flat, distal 3/4+ deeply 3–5-lobed (sinuses extending 2/3–3/4 to midvein), lobes unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, teeth 1–3(–5) per lobe, surfaces similar, green, brownish, or reddish, hairs absent or sparse, 0.2–0.5 mm, glands sparse to common (also densely punctate-glandular). <b>Inflorescences</b> 1-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> straight or ± curved, 0–0.5(–2) cm in flower, to 5 cm in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: epicalyx bractlets linear, elliptic, or obovate, 2–2.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, margins flat; hypanthium 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; sepals 2.2–2.5 mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse; petals pale yellow, 3–3.5 × 3–3.5 mm; filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.3–0.4 mm; carpels 20–25, styles ± columnar, not papillate-swollen proximally, 0.7–0.9 mm. <b>Achenes</b> 1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28 (Russian Far East).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rock crevices, blocky scree, mountain summits, mostly on acidic bedrock
|elevation=100–1600 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;e Asia (Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p>For present purposes, <i>Potentilla elegans</i> is treated in sect. Aureae, as was done by B. C. Johnston (1985), largely on the basis of pragmatism. J. Soják (1994) places the species instead in sect. Dumosae Soják, which otherwise comprises several Himalayan species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Potentilla elegans
|author=
|authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rock crevices, blocky scree, mountain summits, mostly on acidic bedrock
|elevation=100–1600 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;e Asia (Russian Far East).
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1827
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae
|genus=Potentilla
|section=Potentilla sect. Aureae
|species=Potentilla elegans
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