Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ranunculus multiscapus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 9 (1852)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Ranunculus lappaceus var. multiscapus (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 7 (1864)
- = Ranunculus muricatulus Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 381 (1890 [1891])
- = Ranunculus lappaceus var. macrophyllus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 15 (1899)
Vernacular Name(s):
Grassland buttercup
Description
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.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1891: A Description of some newly discovered indigenous plants, being a further contribution towards making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 23: 381–391.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1990: Typification of Ranunculus names in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 28: 115–123.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
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.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
