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Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.

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Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 9 (1852)
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
9
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Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
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Ranunculus multiscapus

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multiscapus

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Tufted herb up to 15 cm. or more tall, densely to sparsely hairy. Stock rather stout, erect, sts multicipital. Lvs us.(, radical, on petioles up to 5 cm. or more long. Lamina (0·5)-1-2-(4) cm. diam.; broad ovate to suborbicular in outline, 3-lobed to 3-foliolate, or variously toothed, rarely subentire. Scapes few to many, nude, 1-fld, us. elongating in fruit. Fls small to rather large, pale to golden yellow; sepals 5, spreading; petals 5 (rarely more) obovate to oblong; gland 1 near base. Fruiting heads small; achenes compressed to slightly swollen, glab., margined; style us. rather strongly hooked.

Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.

2n = 16, (32)
2n = 16
2n = 16
2n = 32

Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.

Tufted, scapose perennial, (5)-10-35 cm tall; rhizome 0. Lvs simple, oblanceolate to ovate to very broadly ovate or obovate, (3)-5-9-(11)-toothed, sometimes shallowly 3-5-lobed, hairy, (5)-10-20 × (4)-8-18 mm. Fls solitary, long-stalked, 10-20 mm diam. Scapes terete, hairy; hairs often wavy, sometimes appressed above. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 5-(6), yellow, often purplish beneath, obovate or narrow-obovate; nectary single, basal, covered by a truncate scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 15-30, flattened, glabrous, 2-3.5 mm long; beak curved or ± straight, 0.5-1 mm long.

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Ranunculus lappaceus sensu Allan
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
Ranunculus lappaceus var. macrophyllus Kirk
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
Ranunculus lappaceus var. multiscapus (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
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Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
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Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.
Ranunculus muricatulus Colenso
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f.

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0f422c5f-4590-41e9-96ab-9f02623e8578
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1 January 2000
1 March 2007
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