familyRanunculaceae
genusRanunculus
subgenusRanunculus subg. Ranunculus
sectionRanunculus sect. Ranunculus
speciesRanunculus macranthus
Ranunculus macranthus
Linnaea 21: 585. 1848.
EndemicIllustrated
Synonyms: Ranunculus fascicularis var. cuneiformis (Small) L. D. Benson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
Stems erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous. Roots tuberous. Basal leaf-blades ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 3.8-10 × 2.7-9 cm, leaflets 1×-lobed, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex broadly acute to rounded-obtuse. Flowers: receptacle hispid; sepals spreading or weakly reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 7-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid; petals 10-22, yellow, 12-22 × 4-9 mm. Heads of achenes globose to cylindric, 8-14 × 8-10 mm; achenes 2.2-4.2 × 2.8-3.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.4-0.6 mm wide; beak usually persistent, filiform from deltate base, straight, 2-4 mm. 2n = 32.
Phenology: Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May).
Habitat: Riverbanks and wet meadows
Elevation: 0-400 m
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not prolonged +
flattened +
3-15 times as wide as thick +
glabrous +
2.8mm;3.4mm +
dehiscing +
3-5-foliolate +
compound +
parted +
not bulbous +
deltate +
straight +
persistent +
much shorter +
terminal +
absent +
filiform +
leaflike +
absent +
sepaloid +
absent +
aggregated +
globose;cylindric +
tuberous +
compound +
alternate +
parted +
1-50-flowered +
sessile +
Tex. +
small +
abundant +
filiform +
pedicellate +
symmetric +
bisexual +
3;5 +
cylindric;obovoid;cylindric;obovoid;globose;lenticular;discoid +
globose;cylindric +
Present +
compound +
undivided +
petiolate +
1×-lobed +
free +
low +
toothed +
0.4mm;0.6mm +
absent +
attached +
glabrous +
hypogynous +
yellow +
developed +
distinct +
12mm;22mm +
absent +
conspicuous +
10;22 +
reduced +
sheathing +
absent +
simple +
Linnaea +
1848 +
hispid +
tuberous +
narrow +
narrow +
tuberous +
1;many +
petaloid +
spurred +
imbricate +
white;yellow;white;yellow;purple;sometimes;green +
deciduous +
distinct +
? (?) +
hispid +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
veined +
distinct +
(5-)10-many +
absent +
bulbous +
rooting +
hispid +
absent +
tuberous +
persistent +
absent +
Ranunculus macranthus +
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thick +
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high +
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