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9. Ranunculus repens L., Sp. Pl. ed. 1:554. 1753. Boiss., Fl. Or. 1:39. 1867, Ovez. in Komarov, Fl. URSS. 7: 423. 1937, Stewart, Ann. Catalogue Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 272. 1972, Qureshi & chaudhri, l.c. 149 (Fig. 27, A,B).
HARALD RIEDL and YASIN J. NASIR
Naturhistorisches Museum, Botanische Abteilung, Wien, Austria. and National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Perennial, with long creeping stolons, rooting at the nodes, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Stems 15-40 (-60) cm high, branched in its upper part. Basal leaves with petioles of about the same length as blade or slightly longer, blade triangular-ovate, ternate, the middle segment distinctly stalked, segments, ovate, lobed, lobes dentate. Cauline leaves few, smaller, sessile, less divided. Petioles sulcatc, glabrous or hairy. Flowers 20-30 mm in diameter, yellow. Sepals glabrous, patent, half as long as petals. Petals obovate or obovate-oblong. Achenes arranged in a globose head, inserted on a hairy receptacle, up to 3 mm long, rounded ovate, compressed, with a distinct border. Style c. 1.5 mm, curved, flat, falcate.
Type: Described from Europe, Hb. Linn. 715/52 (LINN).
Baluchistan: D-4 Ziarat, R.R. Stewart 848 (RAW). Distribution: Widely distributed as a weed in most parts of Europe and the USSR, W. & S.W. Asia.
Introduced in Pakistan and not truly indigenous.
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