Common name: Small-flowered Buttercup
Ranunculus sessiliflorus R.Br. ex DC. APNI* Description: Annual, pilose or sometimes subglabrous.
Flowering stems to 35 cm long, branching.
Lower leaves palmate, lamina 4–12 mm long or rarely longer, often reniform and broader than long, with 3–5 subacute teeth; upper leaves palmatisect or ternate; petiole mostly 2–5 cm long. Petals ovate or elliptic, 1–2 mm long; nectary above the middle of the petal, lobe semi-elliptic to ± triangular.
Achenes 1.3–2 mm long, with a short triangular beak c. 0.2 mm long (rarely longer).
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in intermittently moist sites, often in grassland or woodland on nutrient-rich soils.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A. W.A.
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the varieties | |
| 1 | Leaves palmate to palmatisect, coarsely toothed or lobed with semi-elliptic subacute lobes | var. sessiliflorus |
| Leaves ternate and further dissected with linear or narrow-lanceolate segments | var. pilulifer |
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