Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones

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Name scientific

Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 126 (1987)

Preferred name

Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones

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 reflexus Garn.-Jones

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Garn.-Jones

Original authors

Garn.-Jones

Publication place

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1987: Orthographic changes for names of New Zealand vascular plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 118–170.

Year published

1987

Publication page

126

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Ranunculus reflexus

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Ranunculus

Species

reflexus

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

hairy buttercup

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Ranunculus hirtus Banks & Sol. ex DC.

Descriptions

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

Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones

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 reflexus Garn.-Jones

Description

Tufted perennial, to 30-(40) cm tall; rhizome 0. Stems erect, with hairs spreading below, appressed above. Basal lvs usually pinnate, rarely 3-foliolate or 3-lobed, hairy; leaflets stalked, ovate or obovate, entire or shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, toothed, very variable in size, 1-5 cm diam. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, often merely 3-lobed; lobes narrower. Fls 3 or more per stem, 8-15 mm diam. Pedicels terete to sulcate, up to 20 cm long, with appressed hairs. Sepals reflexed at flowering, hairy. Petals 5, yellow, narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate; nectary single, c. 0.5 mm from petal base, covered by a small oblong scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 40-80-(100), in ovoid heads, small and pale, moderately flattened, glabrous; body 1.5-2 mm long; beak often dark, hooked, 0.7-1 mm.