accepted name (2005):

P. broteri Boissier & Reuter

Stern's reference

P.Broteri Boissier & Reuter, Diagn. PI.Nov.HisP.4 (184-2) ; Boissier, Voy. Bot. EsP.2, 714 (1845) ; Argenta, Album Ft. Med.-Farm. 1, t. 31 (1862) ; Amo y Mora, F/. Fanerog. Penins. Iber. 6, 746 (1873) ; Willkomm & Lange, Prodr. Ft. HisP.3, 975 (1880) ; Willkomm, III. Ft. HisP.Balear. 1, 105, t. 65, fig. B (1881-85) ; Colmeiro, Enum.y Rev. PI. Penins. Hisp.-Lusit. 1, 88 (1885) ; Baker in Gard. Chron., N. Ser. 22, 10 (1884) ; ibid. 24, 48, fig. n (1886) ; Lynch in Journ. Roy. Hart. Soc. 12, 436 (1890) ; Lazara e Ibiza, ComP.Fl. EspaH. 2, 356 (1907) ; Coutinho, Nota Fl. Portug. 7, 5 (1930) ; F.C. Stem in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 56, 72 (1931) ; F.C. Stern in ibid. 68, 127 (1943).

Syn. P.Broteri var. ovatifolia Boiss. & Reut., I.e. (1842) ; Boissier, I.e. (1845) ; Amo y Mora, I.e. (1873) ; Golmeiro, I.e. 89 (1885) ; Mariz in Bol. Soc. Brot. 4, 112 (1886) ; Lazara e Ibiza, I.e. 357 (1907).....

Stern:

P.Broteri belongs to the subsection foliolatae but the leaflets are narrow, usually on a lower leaf the segments are about 9 to 10 cm. long and 2-75 to 3-5 cm. wide, and thus diner from the other species in this subsection. The number of leaflets, nineteen to twenty-three on a lower leaf, is also different. Among the specimens examined there are a few in which one of the segments, usually the terminal one, is heart-shaped, and this may have given rise to the varietal name of ovatifolia of Boissier since there seems to be no other difference between the type and this supposed variety. The cordate form of the segment also appears when the plant is grown in the good soil of a garden. P.Broteri is a diploid and appears to be unconnected with any other group.

1842 Boissier and Reuter published the description of P.Broteri in Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum Hispanicarum with the locations in the Sierra de Guadarrama, Sierra de Gredos and Sierra de Toledo and also in Portugal, and the variety ovatifolia " foliola ovata minus acuminata " from the hills of Grenada.

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