Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus gunnianus
Common name
Gunn's alpine buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Woodland, herbfields, grassland, moist areas, and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.25 m high, with a short thick creeping rootstock. Flowering stems densely hairy to almost hairless. Leaves mostly basal, 0.3–18 cm long, compound to deeply dissected into narrow segments/leaflets 1–4 cm long, about 1 mm wide, each with a small terminal gland, surfaces with scattered long hairs or becoming hairless. Flowers bright yellow fading to cream to white, the outer surface often tinged pale purple, with 5–13 petals, each 6–25 mm long. Sepals spreading. Flowers single. Flowering stems unbranched. Flowering: spring-summer. Seeds 45–80, plump, oval, 2–2.8 mm long, smooth; beak rather stout, 1–2 mm long, straight or slightly curved.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~gunnianus (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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