Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ranunculus pachycarpus
Common name
Thick-fruit Buttercup
Family
Ranunculaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, and moist sites, often on shallow soils or moss mats overlying rock. Western Slopes and tablelands. Tumut area. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m tall. Densely hairy. Leaves basal, 0.8–4.5 cm long, 8–45 mm wide, with scattered or rather dense semi-appressed hairs, divided into 3 leaflets or dissected into 3 lobes which are toothed or further lobed, or the leaves entire and the margins with 3–7 teeth. Flowers with 5 yellow glossy petals each 6–15 mm long. Sepals spreading. Flowering stems 1–5-flowered. Flowers Aug.–Nov. Seeds about 10–20, wedge-shaped and very plump to almost spherical or slightly squared, smooth, sometimes broadly grooved on the upper side, 2.5–5 mm long, beak 1–2 mm long, weakly curved, or straight with a sharply curved down tip.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~pachycarpus (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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