| Ranunculus orthorhynchus subsp. alaschensis (Benson) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ranunculus orthorhynchus var. alaschensis Benson. | ||
| Description | Tall, glabrous or hirsute, suberect; basal leaves with 3-7 alternate or opposite leaflets, again lobed, ultimate lobes acute or obtuse, appressed-pubescent to gla- brous; petioles sparsely appressed-hispidulous; sepals 5, reflexed, glabrous or pilose; petals longer than sepals, yellow; achenes glabrous, with straight, slender beak about 3 mm long; receptacle cylindroid, hispidulous. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, forests. R. orthorhynchus described from northwest North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. orthorhynchus. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.