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Ranunculus parviflorus

Loefl. (1758)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Ranunculopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Ranunculus

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual herbs 1–3 dm tall.

Stems: Stems erect, pubescent with soft spreading hairs.

Roots: Not rooting at the nodes.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, basal. Blades reniform, 1.5–2 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide. Surfaces pilose. Margins 3-parted and again lobed; cauline leaves margins entire or serrate. Petiolate. Stipules absent or minute.

Flowers: Flowers 1 to several in cymes. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Sepals yellowish green, narrowly ovate, ca. 1 mm long, spreading, caducous. Corolla of 5 petals, yellow, narrowly elliptic, 1–2 mm long, base with a truncate nectary scale. Stamens (5–)numerous; anthers dithecal, opening by a longitudinal slit.

Fruit: Achenes 10–20 in a globose head; obovate; ca. 1.5 mm long; the faces covered by reddish brown papillae that are produced into minute slender hooks; margins strongly marked; beak deltoid; recurved; ca.0.5 mm long. Seeds with a copious endosperm and small embryo.

Ploidy: 2n = 14; 28

Habitat: Fields and pastures.

Elevation Range: 910–1,830 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

Bibliography

Name Published In: Iter Hispan.: 291 (1758)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1089 (H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. North Kohala: Waimea; Kaala Paddock PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 2489 Hawaii BISH 4/20/1939
2 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. kaala; parker rance Wet pasture. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN ewart iii, g.r. collector number: 292 Hawaii BISH 6/20/1932
3 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. South Kona: Kiilae In moist open kipuka. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 1515 Hawaii BISH 8/21/1936
4 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. kona: kealapuali PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 275.h Hawaii BISH 6/29/1911
5 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. north kohala: waimea; kaala paddock PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 2489 Hawaii BISH 4/20/1939
6 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. south kona: kiilae In moist open kipuka. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 1515 Hawaii BISH 8/21/1936
7 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. koolapuuwale, kona wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 275.h. Kauai BISH 6/29/1911
8 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. Waimea Local patch in pasture. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 2496 Hawaii BISH 4/26/1939
9 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. kohala mountains, access road above waikoloa reservoirs 1 & 2, to upper hasmakua ditch PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wagner, w.l. mill, s.w.; lammers, t.; weller, s.; sakai, a.; davis-jacobsen, j. collector number: 5541 Hawaii BISH 6/23/1985
10 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. Kohala Mountains, access road above Waikoloa Reservoirs 1 & 2, to upper Hamakua ditch PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 5541 Hawaii BISH 6/23/1985
11 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. kona: kealapuali Wooded ridge PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 275.h Oahu BISH 6/29/1911
12 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. s kohala dist., upper hamakua ditch trail PRESERVED_SPECIMEN t. w. flynn, r. ornduff, r. gustafson & k. wilson 3961 Hawaii US 5/28/1990
13 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. Upper Hamakua Ditch Trail. Elev. 3600-3900 ft. Metrosideros dominated wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tim Flynn 3961 Hawaii PTBG 5/28/1990
14 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. Kaala; Parker Rance Wet pasture. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Ewart III, G.R. 292 Hawaii BISH 6/20/1932
15 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. Kona: Kealapuali PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 275.H Hawaii BISH 6/29/1911
16 Ranunculus parviflorus Loefl. waimea PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 2496 Hawaii BISH 4/26/1939
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