Ranunculus lappaceus

Australian Buttercup at Forde, ACT

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Identification history

Ranunculus lappaceus	14 Sep 2016	MichaelMulvaney
Ranunculus lappaceus	14 Sep 2016	MichaelMulvaney
Ranunculus graniticola	7 Sep 2016	BettyDonWood
Ranunculus lappaceus	7 Sep 2016	JasonC

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4 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

8 Sep 2016

Ranunculus lappaceus usually has branched stems. On the other hand, Ranunculus graniticola usually occurs ar much higher altitudes than this.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

9 Sep 2016

Jason as Betty says the unbranched flower stems point to this being R. gratiticola, but Mulligans Flat is a disjunct location from all other ACT records that are in Namadgi. Can you please go back and pull a petal off a flower and take a photo of the nectary lobe at the base which is another key ID feature. What we are after is a photo like thishttps://www.flickr.com/photos/22616984@N07/5130401981

JasonC wrote:

14 Sep 2016

Michael - what is the outcome on this one? Keen to roll it into some media with the recent delma finding if it is a new spp for the sanctuary...

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

14 Sep 2016

Thanks Jason , as the nectary is wider at the top this id's it as Ranunculus lappaceus, which for some reason has decided not to branch its stems out, maybe it feels secure enough inside the fence at Mulligan's Flat

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