Abstract
The article presents data on the type specimens of the names of 29 validly published taxa of the genus Potentilla L. described from the Caucasus and some adjacent territories, kept in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS (LE). Listed for each taxon are its Latin name with a nomenclatural citation, category of the type specimen(s), full text of the original herbarium label (in modern spelling), barcode of the specimen, data from the protologue, notes. The type collection contains 110 specimens, including 12 lectotypes (11 of them designated in this article: P. agrimonioides, P. alexeenkoi, P. argaea var. raddeana, P. armeniaca, P. caucasica, P. gelida, P. gelida var. glabrior and var. pilosior, P. nordmanniana, P. sphenophylla and P. svanetica), 8 isolectotypes, 5 holotypes, 10 isotypes, 24 syntypes, 25 paratypes and 26 specimens of the original material (original specimen). The lectotypes of P. adenophylla and P. lomakinii (second-step) are designated in the Herbaria G-BOIS and TBI respectively. The article also contains information about the specimen of the unpublished species «Potentilla jeleniewskii Juz.» (with a short diagnosis on the herbarium label). The images of the cited specimens stored at LE are available in the virtual herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute (https://en.herbariumle.ru).
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