Ranunculus parviflorus L. APNI* Description: Annual, 10–40 cm tall, spreading to suberect, with long, softly pilose hairs.
Basal leaves with lamina rounded-cordate, 1.5–3 cm long, yellowish green, ±3–5-lobed, with lobes bluntly toothed; upper leaves with fewer lobes or entire.
Flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, 3–5 mm diam. Pedicels usually less than 1 cm long, up to 1 cm long in fruit. Sepals reflexed, pilose. Petals 2–5, narrowly obovate, 1.5–2 mm long, pale yellow. Receptacle glabrous
Achenes few, 2.5–3 mm long, ovoid; margin narrow; faces covered with 40–50 shortly hooked tubercules; beak short, curved.
Distribution and occurrence: Norfolk Is., Lord Howe Is., native in the Mediterranean area. A weed of gardens and similar cultivated or open ground.
NSW subdivisions: *LHI
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by B.M. Wiecek
Taxon concept: Flora of Australia, Volume 49, 1994, p. 53.
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