Ranunculaceae Week: Ranunculus cantoniensis_RKC_02_020511

[Ritesh Kumar Choudhary]

Name: Ranunculus cantoniensis DC.

Family: Ranunculaceae

Loc.: Churdhar Wildlife sanctuary, Himachal Pradesh (ca 1500m)

Date: August, 2010

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Ritesh.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Nice photographs, Ritesh ji

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[Ritesh Kumar Choudhary]

Thank you sir! Some more are yet to be uploaded.

Regards,
Ritesh.

[JM Garg]

[J.M. Garg]

I think it should be Ranunculus diffusus as per images and details herein and as per keys in bold from Flora of China:

13 (11)	Flowers leaf-opposed; stems often prostrate.		(14)
+	Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or more in monochasium; stems usually erect.		(15)

14 (13)	Sepals spreading; basal leaves ternate or simple		112 R. diffusus
+	Sepals reflexed; basal leaves all ternate		113 R. sieboldii

15 (13)	Basal leaves ternate.		(16)
+	Basal leaves simple, palmatipartite or palmatisect.		(23)
16 (15)	Receptacle glabrous		96 R. japonicus
+	Receptacle hairy.		(17)
17 (16)	Stolons present		117 R. repens
+	Stolons absent.		(18)
18 (17)	Aggregate fruit cylindric		118 R. chinensis
+	Aggregate fruit globose.		(19)
19 (18)	Flower solitary; carpels 10--17		111 R. sinovaginatus
+	Flowers 2--10 in monochasium; carpels many.		(20)
20 (19)	Sepals spreading		108 R. trigonus
+	Sepals reflexed.		(21)
21 (20)	Persistent style hooked		115 R. silerifolius
+	Persistent style straight or slightly curved.		(22)
22 (21)	Basal leaves 1-ternate		114 R. cantoniensis
+	Basal leaves 2-ternate		116 R. tachiroei

Also as per keys in Srivastava SK (2010) Revision of genus Ranunculus L.(Ranunculaceae) in India. Taiwania 55(3): 273-314. [Full text with line diagrams], Achenes not dotted in Ranunculus cantoniensis.

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[J.M. Garg]

Pl. also see FoC illustration.