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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Alchemilla micans
|accepted_authority=Buser
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Herb. Boissier
|place=1(app. 2): 28. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Gleaming lady’s mantle
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae;Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae;Alchemilla;Alchemilla micans
|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>[[Alchemilla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Alchemilla micans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 304
|treatment_page=page 308
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism size;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form;distal part prominence"><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, dark green, often somewhat sericeous (abaxial surface of leaves), sometimes reddish-brown, especially on exposed distal part of stems and inflorescences, to 50 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem pubescence;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>usually densely spreading to slightly ascending-hairy, usually glabrous in distal 1/2.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stipule coloration or reflectance;stipule coloration;lobe coloration;lobe coloration;lobe coloration;lobe coloration"><b>Leaves:</b> stipules translucent, strongly wine red-tinged proximally, lobes pale green, sometimes suffused wine red;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole orientation;petiole pubescence">petiole densely spreading or slightly ascending-hairy (especially in distal 1/3);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;margin prominence or shape;margin shape;basal sinuse width;basal sinuse width;basal lobe arrangement;middle lobe shape;middle lobe length or size;middle lobe width;side course">blade usually reniform to orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins flat, sometimes slightly undulate, basal sinuses relatively wide or narrow, basal lobes not overlapping, middle lobes rounded, as long as to longer than their half-widths, to as long as wide and with straight sides;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="incision presence;incision height or length or size">incisions usually absent or relatively short;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="tooth arrangement;tooth shape or architecture;tooth architecture or shape;apex shape;nerve pubescence;region arrangement;region architecture or shape;region shape or architecture;region pubescence;adaxial surface pubescence">teeth usually slightly connivent, almost symmetric to ± asymmetric, apex acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions uniformly or irregularly hairy, adaxial densely appressed-hairy throughout.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="primary branch pubescence"><b>Inflorescences:</b> primary branches often sparsely, sometimes densely, ascending-hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="peduncle pubescence;peduncle pubescence">peduncles glabrous or hairy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="pedicel pubescence;pedicel pubescence;pedicel pubescence"><b>Pedicels </b>glabrous or some of the proximal hairy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="flower coloration;flower coloration"><b>Flowers </b>dark green, often becoming reddish;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="epicalyx bractlet length">epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5+ times sepals (narrower);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium pubescence;hypanthium pubescence">hypanthium attenuate at base, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy (in proximal flowers).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="achene position"><b>Achenes </b>not exserted.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late May–Sep.
|habitat=Meadows, moist sand
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Que.;Maine;N.Y.;Europe
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Alchemilla micans has been widely known as A. gracilis Opiz; the type of that name is referable to A. monticola, a species that the original description also fits better.</p>
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name=Alchemilla micans
|authority=Buser
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering late May–Sep.
|habitat=Meadows, moist sand
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Que.;Maine;N.Y.;Europe
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Herb. Boissier
|publication year=1893
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V9/V9_499.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae
|genus=Alchemilla
|species=Alchemilla micans
|achene position=not exserted
|adaxial surface pubescence=appressed-hairy
|apex shape=acute
|basal lobe arrangement=not overlapping
|basal sinuse width=narrow;wide
|blade shape=7-9-lobed;usually reniform;orbiculate
|distal part prominence=exposed
|epicalyx bractlet length=0.5+ times sepals
|flower coloration=reddish;dark green
|hypanthium pubescence=hairy;glabrous
|hypanthium shape=attenuate
|incision height or length or size=short
|incision presence=absent
|lobe coloration=red;suffused wine;red;pale green
|margin prominence or shape=flat
|margin shape=undulate
|middle lobe length or size=than as-long-as to longer their half-widths
|middle lobe shape=rounded
|middle lobe width=wide
|nerve pubescence=hairy
|pedicel pubescence=hairy;some;glabrous
|peduncle pubescence=hairy;glabrous
|petiole orientation=spreading
|petiole pubescence=ascending-hairy
|primary branch pubescence=ascending-hairy
|region architecture or shape=symmetric
|region arrangement=connivent
|region pubescence=hairy
|region shape or architecture=symmetric to more
|side course=straight
|stem orientation=spreading
|stem pubescence=glabrous;ascending-hairy
|stipule coloration=wine red-tinged
|stipule coloration or reflectance=translucent
|tooth architecture or shape=asymmetric
|tooth arrangement=connivent
|tooth shape or architecture=symmetric to more
|whole_organism coloration=reddish-brown;dark green
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism pubescence=sericeous
|whole_organism size=medium-sized
|whole_organism some measurement=0cm;50cm
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