Ranunculus Inundatus

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Ranunculus Inundatus. Ranunculus Inundatus comes from Australia and becomes 5-10cm tall. There are many species and variants of Ranunculus, which grow coarse and leggy in aquariums. Ranunculus Inundatus is characterised by its compact form and distinguished, deeply cut umbrellas. Ranunculus Inundatus or River Buttercup is one of the few Ranunculus species that grow submerged. If given strong lighting, high co2, and plenty nutrients it will stay compact and bright green. It takes some time to acclimate to new conditions but once the acclimation process is over it will grow very well. Ranunculus inundatus, commonly known as the river buttercup, is a species of buttercup found in eastern Australia. References This page was last edited on 16 April 2021, at 09:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms. Ranunculus inundatus, or river buttercup, is an amphibic plant originating from south-eastern Australia. There it grows on wet mud or in the waters of ponds and rivers. Ranunculus (buttercup) species are found in many wetlands all over the world, however, R. Inundatus is one of the few that grow submersed, too. Ranunculus inundatus, or river buttercup, is an amphibic plant originating from south-eastern.

Ranunculus Inundatus Pflege

Family: Ranunculaceae

Citation: R. Br. ex DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 1:269 (1817).

Synonymy: Ranunculus rivularis

Common name: River-buttercup.

Description:
Perennial herb, 5-30 cm high, stoloniferous; basal leaves palmatisect, 1-4 cm wide, with segments 0.5-2 mm wide, glabrous; petioles 1-15 cm long, glabrous or with a few flexible hairs; basal sheaths more or less pilose; cauline leaves palmatisect to trisect.
Flowering stems slender, erect, with 1-3 flowers, glabrous or pilose at the base; vegetative stems creeping, rooting at the nodes; flowers 1-1.5 cm diam.; sepals 5, elliptic to almost round, concave, glabrous; petals 5-7, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, apex rounded; nectary very near the base, with a semicircular to tongue-shaped lobe to 1 mm long, its lateral margins attached for the lower one-third to half its length; stamens c. 25-30; carpels c. 20-30.
Mature achenes almost lenticular, c. 1.5-1.8 mm long; beak reflexed, about half to two-thirds as long as achene-body; lateral faces with obscure irregular warty ridges and a broad flattened area at the base of the style; torus with a dense ring of short hairs in the staminal zone, glabrous between the achenes.

Ranunculus inundatus
Image source: fig 197b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration:Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 309.

Distribution: Usually grows in shallow water with the leaves floating or submerged.

S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.


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