WorldFloraDB - Ranunculus subscaposus

Characteristics

Rather stout erect or spreading herb up to 45 cm. long, ± clad in stiff fulvous appressed hairs; stock stout, main roots deeply descending. Lvs mostly radical on slender petioles 7-15-(20) cm. long; sheaths pilose. Lamina ± 3 × 4 cm., subreniform to ovate or deltoid-cuneate, deeply 3-partite; segs irregularly 3-7-fid. Cauline lvs opp., smaller, rather less deeply cut. Scapes or peduncles 1-2 pairs, up to 5 cm. long, axillary. Fls 8-14 mm. diam.; sepals 5, spreading; petals 5, yellow, obovate-oblong, ± size of sepals; gland 1 minute, below middle. Fruiting heads ovoid to globose, 8-10 mm. diam.; receptacle cylindric, papillose. Achenes ± compressed, margined, glab., 3-4 × 1·5-2 mm., obliquely oval in outline; style < 1 mm. long, straight or nearly so.

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Tufted perennial; rhizome 0; stem up to 30 cm tall at fruiting, with appressed hairs. Basal lvs long-petiolate, ternate or ternatifid, triangular-ovate, 1-4 cm diam., with appressed hairs; leaflets and lobes again 3-lobed, toothed. Cauline lvs similar to basal, opposite, smaller. Fls 1-3 per stem, 15-20 mm diam.; pedicels elongating at fruiting, with short appressed hairs. Sepals spreading, with appressed hairs. Petals 5, brownish yellow, narrowly obovate, with sparse appressed hairs on back; nectary single, c. 2 mm from petal base, covered by a small rounded scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes very numerous, flattened, usually with a few appressed hairs on angles; body 2-2.5 mm long; beak straight, tapering, flattened, c. 1 mm long.

Life form
Growth form	herb
Growth support	-
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	-
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Mature width (meter)	-
Mature height (meter)	0.3
Root system	rhizome
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Flower color
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Environment

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Usage

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Cultivation

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

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:713913-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000462254
COL ID	6X4RJ
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
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Synonyms

Ranunculus aucklandicus Ranunculus subscaposus Ranunculus subantarcticus Ranunculus hectori

WorldFloraDB 2024

Ranunculus subscaposus Hook.F.

Species