Ranunculus Linnaeus 1753 (buttercup)

Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Ranunculaceae according to Y. J. Huang et al. 2021

See also Chauhan 1991, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Aconitum, Clematis, Folliculites, Helleborites, Munierina, Thalictrum, Trollius

Subtaxa: Ranunculus sceleratus Ranunculus tachiroei

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (2: Ontario collections), Greenland (1), India (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (2: North Carolina, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (3)

• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (7), Italy (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of China (1), Germany (7), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (12)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4)

• Tertiary of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 59 collections including 93 occurrences

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