familyRanunculaceae
genusRanunculus
subgenusRanunculus subg. Ranunculus
sectionRanunculus sect. Epirotes
speciesRanunculus allenii
Ranunculus allenii
Rhodora 7: 220. 1905.
Stems erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. Roots slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. Basal leaves persistent, blades reniform or semicircular, undivided or some 3-parted, 1.4-2.1 × 1.7-2.8 cm, base cordate or truncate, margins crenate with more than 5 crenae, apex rounded. Flowers: pedicels pilose, sometimes sparsely so; receptacle hispid; sepals 4-6 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 4-5 × 2-4 mm; nectary scale glabrous. Heads of achenes ovoid to cylindric, 4-7 × 4-6 mm; achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lance-subulate, curved, 0.4-0.6 mm. 2n = 32.
Phenology: Flowering summer (Jul–Aug).
Habitat: Wet alpine meadows, often around late snowbeds, shores of lakes and streams
Elevation: 700-1300 m
Distribution
Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.W.T., Que.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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... more about "Ranunculus allenii"
not prolonged +
1.2-2 times as wide as thick +
glabrous +
1.2mm;1.4mm +
dehiscing +
rounded +
petiolate +
persistent +
curved +
much shorter +
terminal +
absent +
lance-subulate +
compound +
3-parted;semicircular;reniform +
leaflike +
absent +
sepaloid +
absent +
aggregated +
globose;cylindric +
tuberous +
sometimes;sessile;nearly sessile +
alternate +
Renoncule d'Allen +
1-50-flowered +
sessile +
small +
abundant +
filiform +
pedicellate +
symmetric +
1;4 +
bisexual +
3;5 +
cylindric;obovoid;cylindric;obovoid;globose;lenticular;discoid +
colorless +
ovoid;cylindric +
compound +
undivided +
serrate +
free +
inconspicuous +
crenate +
absent +
joined +
glabrous +
pilose +
hypogynous +
yellow +
distinct +
4mm;5mm +
conspicuous +
reduced +
sheathing +
absent +
simple +
Rhodora +
1905 +
hispid +
tuberous +
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tuberous +
basal +
1;many +
petaloid +
spurred +
imbricate +
white;yellow;white;yellow;purple;sometimes;green +
deciduous +
distinct +
pilose +
veined +
Endemic +
distinct +
(5-)10-many +
absent +
bulbous +
not bulbous-based +
pilose +
absent +
tuberous +
persistent +
absent +
Ranunculus allenii +
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