Abstract
The new species Alchemilla sciura (Rosaceae) is described from the Highlands of Scotland. A. sciura belongs to the series Vulgares Buser, subseries subglabrae H.Lindberg. It is known with certainty only from the slopes of The Cairnwell (v.c.90).
Highlights
Alchemilla is a large and mostly apomictic genus to which in the UK at least relatively little attention has been paid in recent years
No new Alchemilla species has been described since A. minima Walters in 1949
Within the last few years I have been fortunate in acquiring several herbarium specimens attributed to this taxon collected by the late Erik Evers. Examination of these has shown them to be much closer to A. glomerulans than to A. sciura, differing in several respects including again the toothing and the indumentum
Summary
Alchemilla is a large and mostly apomictic genus to which in the UK at least relatively little attention has been paid in recent years. Diagnosis Resembles Alchemilla glomerulans, differing most obviously in both leaf surfaces being essentially lacking in hairs (other than along the main veins on the underside), and the indumentum of the stem being typically sparse and extending only to the first two or three internodes. Upper leaf surface essentially glabrous, any hairs usually confined to the teeth where they cover the outer edges of the teeth in a silvery-white indumentum.
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