Ranunculus paucifolius Kirk

Castle hill buttercup (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus

Characteristics

Glab. herb up to 10 cm. tall; seedlings with tuber-like rootlets; stock stout, erect or ascending, up to 4 cm. long; main roots thick, descending to ± 3 dm. Lvs radical on rigid petioles up to 5 cm. or more long, with broad sheaths; lamina greyish green, suborbicular in outline, cuneate to subreniform at base, 2-6 cm. diam., deeply 3-5-lobed, crenate to dentate. Scapes 1-(4), stout, nude, 1-fld, 1-2 cm. long. Fls (2)-4 cm. diam.; sepals 5, pale yellow, ovate-oblong, at length deflexed, 5 mm. or more long; petals 5-8 or more, golden yellow, broad-obovate, emarginate; gland 1 basal. Fruiting heads small, globose; achenes few, turgid, glab.; style subulate, ± = achenes, curved.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Distribution

Ranunculus paucifolius world distribution map, present in New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:713459-1
WFO ID wfo-0000463472
COL ID 79554
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Synonyms

Ranunculus paucifolius