Rosaceae

A. pseudocartalinica Juz. in Grossh., Fl. Kavk. ed. 1, 4:327 (1934). Figure 1, p. 87.
Medium-sized to tall and robust, with flowering stems up to 50 cm, adpressed hairy on the lowest two internodes; inflorescence glabrous. Leaves up to 7 cm wide, ± reniform, 7-9-lobed with wide basal sinus; lobes semicircular or sub-triangular, without toothless incisions between them; leaf teeth 5-7(-8), rather unequal (especially on larger leaves), subacute or ± obtuse. Upper leaf surface glabrous, lower adpressed hairy on veins only; petioles mostly adpressed hairy. Fl. 5-8. Damp meadows, rocky igneous slopes, 1200-3000 m.
Described from Azerbaijan, nr. Baku.
N. & Inner Anatolia. A2(A) Bursa: Ulu Da., c. 1900 m, 7 vii 1963, Regel! A3 Bolu: Ala Da., Kartal Kaya Tepe, 2100-2200 m, D. 37378! A4 Kastamonu: N. side of Ilgaz Da., 2000 m, D. 38314! A5 Çorum: on road to summit of Köse Da., c. 1400 m, Coode & Jones 1937! A8 Rize: top of pass, Rize to Ispir, 3000 m, Stn & Hend. 6269! A9 Kars: Yalnizçam Da., 2250 m, D. 29689! B2 Kütahya: Murat Da., above Banaz, 1800 m, Coode & Jones 2480! B6 Sivas: Bey Da., S. of Zara, 2000 m, Stn. & Hend. 5294! B8 Erzurum: 20 km from Hinis to Pasinler, 1950 m, D. 46284! B9 Van: Halanduran Da., c. 25 km from Başkale to Van, 3000 m, McNeill 648! C5 Niğde: Karagöl, nr. Bolkar Maden, 2600 m, Siehe 1912:225!
N. Iraq, Georgia, Soviet Azerbaijan, Afghanistan. In addition to well-grown plants which fit the original description very accurately, I have included here small plants which I believe to be environmentally dwarfed variants. In doing this I am assuming the variation is analogous to that of the widespread European A.glabra Neyg., which is very similar, but distinguishable in well-grown material (though not always so in depauperate specimens) by its sparser indumentum.