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.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.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Ranunculidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Ranunculales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Ranunculaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Buttercup Family
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
()
- Tribe:
Anemoneae
()
- Genus:
Anemonella
()
- Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
thalictroides
- Cultivar:
Snowball
- Botanical name: - Anemonella thalictroides 'Snowball'
- Cultivar:
Snowball
- Specific epithet:
thalictroides
- Genus:
Anemonella
(
- Tribe:
Anemoneae
(
- Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
(
- Family:
Ranunculaceae
(
- Order:
Ranunculales
(
- Superorder:
Ranunculanae
(
- Subclass:
Ranunculidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anemonella
There are approximately 28 species in this genus:
A. nemorosa 'Parlez Vous' (Wood Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Alba Plena' · A. thalictroides 'Amelia' · A. thalictroides 'Atlas Double' · A. thalictroides 'Betty Blake' · A. thalictroides 'Cameo' (Rue Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Charlotte' · A. thalictroides 'Double Green' · A. thalictroides 'Double White' (Double White Rue Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Flore Pleno' · A. thalictroides 'Full Double White' · A. thalictroides 'Green Hurricane' (Rue Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Jade Feather' (Rue Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Limelight' · A. thalictroides 'Rosea Plena' · A. thalictroides 'Shoaf' (Shoaf's Double Pink Rue Anemone) · A. thalictroides 'Snowball' · A. thalictroides 'Snowflakes' · A. thalictroides 'Tairin' · A. thalictroides 'White Bells' · A. thalictroides f. chlorantha · A. thalictroides f. favilliana · A. thalictroides f. rosea (Crowfoot) · A. thalictroides f. rosea 'Oscar Schoaf' · A. thalictroides f. rosea double pink-flowered · A. thalictroides f. rosea semi-double pink-flowered · A. thalictroides semi-double white-flowered · A. thalictroides white-flowered
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Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1883980
