Ranunculus lappaceus

Australian Buttercup at Brindabella, NSW

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Identification history

	Ranunculus lappaceus	24 Jan 2018	BettyDonWood
	Unverified	23 Jan 2018	Qwerty

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BettyDonWood wrote:

24 Jan 2018

At that altitude, it is as likely to be Ranunculus graniticola. It would have been easier to make the decision if there had been a photo of a whole plant. I based my ID on the fact that lappaceus nearly always has branched stems, and that graniticola usually does not. To be absolutely certain, one has to kook at the tiny pocket under 1 mm long at the base of a petal (nectary lobe). In lappaceus it is wedge shaped. In graniticola the sides are about parallel to each other. There is also a difference in the shape of the seeds.

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Sighting information

8 Abundance
22 Jan 2018 11:53 AM Recorded on
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Qwerty Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other Wildflowers & Herbs Plants

Additional information

True In flower
10cm to 30cm Plant height

Species information

Ranunculus lappaceus Scientific name
Australian Buttercup Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1839.94m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
In flower

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

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