Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

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Name scientific

Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 3: 177 (1871)

Preferred name

Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

F.Muell. ex Kirk

Original authors

Kirk

Publication place

Kirk, T. 1871 ("1870"): Descriptions of New Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 3: 177–180.

Year published

1871

Publication page

177

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Ranunculus limosella

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Ranunculus

Species

limosella

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

Description

Small slender glab. herb with filiform creeping stems, rooting at nodes, internodes us. very short. Lvs solitary or few together at nodes, on filiform petioles up to 3 cm. long; lamina up to 1cm. long, slightly dilated to ± spathulate. Peduncles filiform, 1-2 cm. long. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; sepals 4, ovate to oblong, ± 2 mm. long; petals 4, yellow to purple, linear, ± 6 mm. long, revolute; gland 1 well above base. Fruiting heads ± 2 mm. diam.; achenes small, few, ± turgid, obliquely ovoid; style slender, recurved.

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

Ranunculus limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

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 limosella F.Muell. ex Kirk

Description

Perennial; rosettes tufted along a slender creeping stem. Lvs long-petiolate; lamina entire, spathulate or dilated, glabrous, 5-15 mm long. Fls solitary, 6-8 mm diam., on glabrous scapes. Sepals spreading, glabrous. Petals 4, yellow to purple, linear; nectary single, 0.5 mm from petal base, pocket-like. Receptacle glabrous. Achenes 5-15, hardly flattened, glabrous; body 0.8-1 mm long; beak straight or curved, c. 1 mm long.