Ranunculus jiguanshanicus (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Sichuan, China

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Asia · Topics: Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Plant responses to water stress, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Ranunculus jiguanshanicus (Ranunculaceae), a new species from Chongzhou in Sichuan province, China, is here described and illustrated. The new species is easily distinguishable from other Chinese members of the genus by an array of characters, including small stature, glabrous and prostrate stems, 3-foliolate leaves with obvious petiolules (3–5 mm long), unequally 3-sected leaflets, lanceolate to linear ultimate leaflet segments, small flowers (5.2–6 mm in diameter), and long styles in the carpels and achenes (ca. 0.8 mm long). A distribution map of this new species is also provided.

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