Abstract
Glabrous or sometimes hairy terrestrial perennials. Basal leaves lobed, parted, or divided; the cauline similar or reduced to small, entire bracts; in one variety the basal leaves entire but the cauline parted. Sepals green or yellow, dorsally lightly tinged with lavender or rarely with red or purple. Petals 5, rarely 10, yellow (white in a European species); the nectary scale truncate, entire. Achenes 50-150 in a cylindrical or ovoid spike, obovoid, the dorsoventral measurement of each not more than twice the lateral; the pericarp smooth, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; styles present, the achenes beaked. Receptacle much enlarged in fruit. Type species, Ranunculus alpestris L.
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