An information about 410 type and original specimens of taxa (65 published names) described as part of the genus Potentilla L. based on collections from Central Asia and Kazakhstan and stored in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS (LE) is provided. Considering data from other collections (DR, PR, MW, TK, JE, KFTA, KW, L, M, MO and P), the total amount of type material presented in the article is 509 samples. They include 33 lectotypes (27 in LE), 19 isolectotypes (8 in LE), 24 holotypes (23 in LE), 23 isotypes (20 in LE), 76 paratypes (75 in LE), 133 syntypes (91 in LE), and 203 specimens (168 in LE) which belong to original material (“original specimens”). The lectotypes of the names of 25 taxa (P. algida, P. approximata, P. biflora var. stenopetala, P. bifurca var. canescens, P. desertorum, P. desertorum var. arnavatensis, P. fedtschenkoana, P. fedtschenkoana var. digitata, P. flabellata, P. fruticosa var. angustifolia, P. hololeuca var. calvescens and var. subtrijuga, P. komaroviana, P. lipskyana, P. malacotricha, P. multifida var. nubigena, P. nivea var. cano-tomentosa, P. schrenkiana, P. sibirica, P. soongorica, P. soongorica var. viridescens, P. tephroleuca, P. transcaspia, P. turczaninowiana, P. turgaica) are designated in this work. The images of type specimens of P. ferganensis and P. × jakovlevii, local endemics of Asia, known only from locus classicus, which were not collected after the original description, are presented.