familyRanunculaceae
genusRanunculus
subgenusRanunculus subg. Ranunculus
sectionRanunculus sect. Flammula
speciesRanunculus gormanii
Ranunculus gormanii
Pittonia 3: 91. 1896.
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
Stems prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous. Roots thickened basally, glabrous. Proximal cauline leaf-blades narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescences: bracts ovate or sometimes lanceolate. Flowers: receptacle glabrous; sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous; petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 mm; nectary scales glabrous. Heads of achenes hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm; achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm.
Phenology: Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul).
Habitat: Damp soil of meadows and stream banks
Elevation: 900-3300 m
Discussion
Ranunculus gormanii is restricted to middle elevations in the Klamath and southern Cascade Mountains.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
... more about "Ranunculus gormanii"
not prolonged +
1-2 times as wide as thick +
glabrous +
not ornamented +
thick +
1.2mm;1.4mm +
dehiscing +
truncate +
much shorter +
terminal +
absent +
undivided +
leaflike +
absent +
lanceolate;ovate +
sepaloid +
absent +
aggregated +
globose;cylindric +
tuberous +
alternate +
1-15(-40)-flowered +
unlobed +
sessile +
small +
abundant +
filiform +
free +
shorter +
pedicellate +
symmetric +
bisexual +
3;5 +
cylindric;obovoid;cylindric;obovoid;globose;lenticular;discoid +
hemispheric +
compound +
undivided +
free +
denticulate;entire +
absent +
attached +
projecting +
glabrous +
hypogynous +
yellow +
distinct +
4mm;6mm +
conspicuous +
5;6 +
reduced +
sheathing +
absent +
simple +
petiolate +
Pittonia +
1896 +
glabrous +
tuberous +
low +
narrow +
tuberous +
glabrous +
thickened +
1;many +
petaloid +
spurred +
imbricate +
white;yellow;white;yellow;purple;sometimes;green +
deciduous +
distinct +
glabrous +
veined +
Endemic +
distinct +
(5-)10-many +
absent +
bulbous +
rooting +
prostrate +
erect +
glabrous +
absent +
tuberous +
persistent +
absent +
Ranunculus gormanii +
Ranunculus sect. Flammula +
species +
rhizomatous +