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Keys
  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
  • Families
Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculus

  • Ranunculus flammula
  • Ranunculus sceleratus
  • Ranunculus sardous
  • Ranunculus pumiliopumilio
  • Ranunculus pumiliopolitus
  • Ranunculus inundatus
  • Ranunculus repens
  • Ranunculus amphitrichus
  • Ranunculus papulentus
  • Ranunculus meristus
  • Ranunculus collinus
  • Ranunculus pimpinellifolius
  • Ranunculus lappaceus
  • Ranunculus plebeius
  • Ranunculus sessiliflorussessiliflorus
  • Ranunculus muricatus

Ranunculus L.

Buttercups

47 species in Aust. (10 naturalized); all states and territories

Herbs with basal or alternate leaves, usually lobed or divided. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals usually 5 (sometimes more), usually with a nectary pit near the base. Stamens numerous. Carpels several to many, capitate; style persisting as a beak on the achene.