Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Ranunculus productus

Common name

A Buttercup

Family

Ranunculaceae

Where found

Wet montane and subalpine grassland at about 1500-1800 m altitude. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Perennial herb. Flowering stems mostly 0.01–0.04 m long at flowering, elongating to 0.45 m in seed. Stems hairy with short appressed hairs. Leaves mostly basal, 0.7–3.5 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, hairy with short appressed hairs, compound, with 3–7 oval leaflets which are 3-lobed and further lobed or toothed. Flowers pale yellow, with 5 petals, each 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowering stems 1-flowered. Sepals spreading, rarely slightly turned down. Flowering: Dec.-Mar. Seeds 25–45, lens-shaped, elliptical to almost round, 0.3–2 mm long, not strongly compressed, side faces smooth; beak 0.3-0.8 mm long, slender, strongly curved down.

Some small specimens from Kosciuszko National Park, and the Brindabella Range, ACT, appear to be intermediate between Ranunculus pimpinellifolius and Ranunculuus productus.

PlantNET description with line drawings and photo:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ranunculus~productus (accessed 4 February, 2021)