Ranunculus anemoneus

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Ranunculus anemoneus F.Muell.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (4), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), ANBG_2019 (30), Chen_2017 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Morgan_2014 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (9), Pickering_2014 (4), SPRAT_2025_2 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Venn_2011 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 112 records in 17 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Chen_2017; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 6275.58 mm2 (5378-8070.35 mm2) [sources: Morgan_2014; Pickering_2014; Venn_2011]
leaf_length (numerical): 66.25 mm (25-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 75 mm (40-130 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 16 cm (4-28 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 170.01 g/m2 (170.01-170.01 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.23 g/g (0.23-0.23 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Pickering_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); rhizomatous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnny (1); ynnnnnnnnnny (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.48 mg (1.52-2.96 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; Morgan_2014; Venn_2011]
seed_length (numerical): 4.14 mm (4.14-4.14 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 1.72 mm (1.72-1.72 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.35 m (0.35-0.35 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ANBG_2019	7	30	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
White_2020	20	20	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	10	12	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	6	9	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_1981	3	4	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Pickering_2014	4	4	C. Pickering, K. Green, A. A. Barros, and S. Venn. “A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones”. Alpine Botany 124.2 (2014), pp. 93-103. doi: 10.1007/s00035-014-0140-0.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Morgan_2014	3	3	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
Venn_2011	3	3	S. E. Venn, K. Green, C. M. Pickering, and J. W. Morgan. “Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 1491-1499. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9923-1.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
SPRAT_2025_2	2	2	F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.