Comarum salesovianum (Steph.) Aschers. et Graebn. (= Potentilla salesoviana Steph.) - a remarkable fruticulose plant growing locally and asocially in some highest mountains of Central Asia, Altai and Tuva.

Screes on the Tarkhatta River right bank, junction of the Sailyugem and Yuzhno-Chuiiskii mountain ranges, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, the Altai Mts., West Siberia, Russia. 9th July 1998. O. Kosterin.