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Description
Family Ranunculaceae
Herbs perennial
or annual
, sometimes subshrubs
or herbaceous or woody vines
. Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled
, simple
or variously compound
, palmately nerved, rarely penninerved
, with or without stipules. Inflorescence a simple or compound monochasium, dichasium, simple or compound raceme, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual
, sometimes unisexual
, actinomorphic
, rarely zygomorphic, hypogynous. Sepals 3--6 or more, free
, petaloid
or sepaloid
, imbricate or sometimes valvate
in bud. Petals present or absent, 2--8 or more, free, usually with nectaries. Stamens numerous
, rarely few, free; filaments
linear
or filiform
; anthers
latrorse
, introrse
, or extrorse
; sometimes some sterile
stamens becoming staminodes. Carpels numerous or few, rarely 1, free, rarely connate
to various degrees
; ovary with 1 to many ovules. Fruit follicles or achenes, rarely capsules or berries
. Seeds small, with abundant endosperm and minute embryo.
About 60 genera and 2500 species: worldwide, but richly represented in N temperate regions
, particularly in E Asia; 38 genera (four endemic) and 921 species (604 endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Ranunculidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Ranunculales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Ranunculaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, nom. cons.
- boutons d'or, buttercups
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
()
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
(
- Family:
Ranunculaceae
(
- Order:
Ranunculales
(
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
(
- Subclass:
Ranunculidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Adonis Pyrenaicus Cylleneus • Adonis pyrenaicus L. var. cylleneus (Boiss. • Chrysocyathus Cylleneus • Heldr. & Orph.) Huth
Notes
Publishing author
: Boiss.Heldr. & Orph. Publication
: Diagn. Pl.
Orient. ser. 2, 5: 5 1856 [Sep-Oct 1856]
An accepted name
in the RHS
Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Adonis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. aestivalis (Pheasants Eye) · A. amurensis 'Pleniflora' (Birdseye) · A. annua (Autumn Adonis) · A. vernalis (Ox-Eye)
More Info
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Further Reading
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 479.
- Checklists for the CORINE Biotopes Programme and its application in the PHARE countries of Central and East Europe: including comparisons with relevant conventions and agreements on the conservation of European species and habitats EC url p. 117.
- European plants in peril: a review of threatened plants in the European Community WCMC url p. 17, p. 3, p. 55.
- Preliminary draft list of plant species for inclusion in a 'Responsibility List' of European plants WCMC url p. 19.
- World Plant Conservation Bibliography WCMC, Royal Botanic Gardens url p. 258, p. 634.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 16, 2008:
- GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
- GBIF-Sweden: Lund Botanical Museum (LD)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5939504
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15807388
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:708089-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 715237
Footnotes
- Wencai Wang, Dezhi Fu, Liang-Qian Li, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, Bryan E. Dutton, Michael G. Gilbert, Yuichi Kadota, Orbélia R. Robinson, Michio Tamura, Michael J. Warnock, Guanghua Zhu & Svetlana N. Ziman "Ranunculaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 6 Page 133. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
