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Ranunculus lingua

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Ranunculus lingua

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Also known as spearwort, greater spearwort

species of plant

Species

Least Concern

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRanunculales
  5. FamilyRanunculaceae
Native toAlbania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia
Observations recorded62,234

Herbs perennial. Stems ca. 75 cm, to 10 mm thick, strigose, few branched above, rooting near base. Basal leaf withering at anthesis. Lower stem leaves with petiole short, ca. 1.5 cm; blade linear-lanceolate, 10--15 × 0.7--2 cm, papery, appressed puberulent, base attenuate or rounded, margin entire, sparsely glandular. Upper stem leaves sessile. Compound monochasium terminal, corymbose, 3- or 4-flowered; bracts leaflike. Flowers 2.7--3.8 cm in diam. Pedicel 2--13.5 cm. Receptacle glabrous. Sepals 5, elliptic-ovate, ca. 7 mm, abaxially appressed puberulent. Petals 5, flabellate-obovate, 17--20 × 14--17 mm, nectary pit without a scale, apex truncate, often emarginate. Stamens numerous; anthers oblong. Aggregate fruit broadly ovoid, ca. 9 mm in diam. Achene obliquely obovoid, 2--3 × 1.5--1.8 mm, glabrous; style persistent, very short.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,932
With media
1,218
Family
Ranunculaceae
Collections
CM, MICH, OSW, CHAS, US, USCH
Recorded in
United States, India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Russia, Romania, Austria, Russian Federation

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