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Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones

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

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Garn.-Jones
Garn.-Jones
1987
126
replacement name
ICN
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
species
Ranunculus simulans

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Stolons short, arching. Laminae 4-8 mm. diam., crenately ± 3-lobed or toothed, on filiform petioles up to c. 2 cm. long. Fls subsessile at anthesis, 3-4 mm. diam.; sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, membr.; petals 5, yellow to greenish yellow, slightly > sepals, gland minute. Fruiting heads 5-6 mm. diam.; achenes ± 2 mm. diam., glab., slightly compressed, margined; style subulate, flattened at base, slightly hooked.

Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones

Perennial; rosettes tufted along slender arching stolons. Basal lvs suborbicular, distinctly rounded to a truncate base, shallowly 3-lobed at apex, rarely again bluntly toothed, glabrous or hairy, thin textured, 3-6-(10) mm diam.; cauline lvs similar to basal, opposite or in lax whorls. Fls solitary; scapes short, up to 15 mm long at fruiting, hairy. Fls 3-5 mm diam. Sepals spreading, sparsely hairy. Petals 5 or 0, yellow, narrowly obovate; nectary single, 0.5-1.5 mm from petal base, covered by a small triangular scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes (5)-10-15, slightly flattened, glabrous; body 1.5-2 mm long; beak straight or curved, c. 0.3 mm long.

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Ranunculus depressus var. stewartiae G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Ranunculus depressus var. stewartiae G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones

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Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Ranunculus simulans Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
26 June 2025
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