掌叶毛茛 zhang ye mao gen

Ranunculus kawakamii Hayata, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30(1): 19. 1911, not Makino (1904).

Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous, subequally thick. Stems ascending or subprostrate, 7--20 cm, strigose, simple or branched, rooting at nodes. Basal leaves ca. 5; petiole 2--5 cm, sparsely puberulent or subglabrous; blade deltoid or semiorbicular, 6--11 × 8--14 mm, herbaceous, glabrous, base subtruncate or broadly cuneate, margin coarsely 5--7-dentate, sparsely ciliate, apex subobtuse. Stem leaves similar to basal ones but gradually reduced upward, sometimes appressed puberulent abaxially. Flowers leaf-opposed, ca. 0.8 cm in diam. Pedicel 1--2.4 cm, appressed puberulent. Receptacle with 1 hair. Sepals 4 or 5, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm, abaxially appressed puberulent. Petals 3--5, white, oblong, ca. 4 mm, nectary pit unknown, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 10; anthers narrowly oblong. Carpels ca. 15; ovary longer than style, ca. 1 mm, glabrous or with 2 or 3 hairs.

* Roadsides; 2000--2200 m. Taiwan.