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Ranunculus meyeri Harv. [family RANUNCULACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 89, (1960) Author: A. W. Exell and E. Milne-Redhead
Names
Ranunculus meyeri var. transvaalensis Szyszyl. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Polypet. Thalam. Rehm.: 102 (1887). Type from the Transvaal.
Ranunculus meyeri Harv. [family RANUNCULACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 7 (1860). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 109 (1926). Type from S. Africa (Cape).
Information
Perennial herb rooting at the nodes, 3–16 cm. tall. Leaves suborbicular, 6–25 mm. in diam., crenate at the margins, cordate or subcordate at the base; petioles up to 16 cm. long, appressed-pilose with the hairs directed upwards or glabrous. Flowers 10–14 mm. in diam., yellow, solitary on peduncles 3–16 cm. long. Sepals 3.5–4 mm. long, spreading, glabrous. Petals narrowly oblong to ligulate, glabrous. Achenes in a subspherical head, broadly ellipsoid, shortly beaked, with narrowly bordered margin, glabrous.
Habitat
In swamps and shallow ponds
Altitude range
at 1500–2000 m.
2000
1500
Distribution
Mozambique MS Tsetsera, 1800 m., fl. i.1956, Drewe (SRGH).Zimbabwe E 10 km. N. of Troutbeck, Inyanga, fl. & fr. 16.xi.1956, Robinson 1912 (K).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Notes
Our specimen has glabrous petioles, as in R. meyeri var. transvaalensis Szyszyl., but the amount of hairiness in the Transvaal specimens is very variable and the variety is scarcely worth maintaining.
Ranunculus meyeri Harv. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
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