Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 4 (1864)

Preferred name

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1990: Typification of Ranunculus names in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 28: 115–123.

Linked name

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.

Year published

1864

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Ranunculus lyallii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Ranunculus

Species

lyallii

Subordinates

Ranunculus lyallii var. araneosa

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Ranunculus lyallii var. araneosa Hook.f.

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Description

Tufted glab. to glabrate herb up to 15 dm. tall; stock very stout, main roots fleshy; main stems up to 2 cm. diam.; branches few to several, up to 3 dm. long. Radical lvs with petioles up to 30 cm. long, pilose at the broad sheathing bases; laminae simple, subcoriac., us. quite glab., peltate, 12-30 cm. diam., suborbicular; margins crenate, sts very shallowly lobed. Lower cauline lvs subsessile, up to 10 cm. diam.; mid smaller, sts deeply lobed, merging into bracts ± 1 cm. long, lanceolate to ovate, alt., entire to ± deeply toothed. Infl. paniculate; fls ∞, ± 5 cm. diam., on pedicels up to 20 cm. long. Sepals ± villous, obovate, 7 × 5 mm. long; petals white, c. 2.5 cm. long, obovate-oblong, rounded to emarginate at apex; nectary gland very small, basal. Fruiting heads 1-3 cm. long; receptacle cylindric, pilose. Achenes pale, ± villous, obliquely obovoid, turgid, c. 3 × 1 mm.; style slender, c. 3 mm. long.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Description

2n = 48

Description

2n = 48

Description

2n = 48

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Ranunculus lyallii Hook.f.

Description

Tufted perennial; rhizome stout. Stems erect, glabrous or sparsely hairy below, 30-120 cm tall. Lvs simple, fleshy, crenate, glabrous or nearly so; basal lvs peltate, orbicular, (5)-10-40 cm diam.; upper lvs truncate or cordate and amplexicaul, smaller than basal. Fls 5-15 per stem, 5-8 cm diam.; pedicels hairy. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 10-16, white, cuneate-obovate; nectary single, (1)-2-4 mm from petal base, naked. Receptacle hairy. Achenes very numerous, not flattened, hairy; body 2-3 mm long; beak straight or curved, 3-5 mm long.