Ranunculus muelleri

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Ranunculus muelleri Benth.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ranunculus muelleri Benth. var. muelleri (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): NSW, Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (12), ANBG_2019 (9), Cheal_2017 (8), Chen_2017 (5), Kew_2019_1 (1), Morgan_2014 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (7), Pickering_2014 (4), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Vesk_2007 (6), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 50 traits from 126 records in 20 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 (3) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1) [sources: Cheal_2017]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): achene (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_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): 316.06 mm2 (316.06-316.06 mm2) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_length (numerical): 19 mm (8-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 5 cm (1-9 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 85.96 g/m2 (61.73-107.58 g/m2) [sources: Pickering_2014; Vesk_2007]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.2 g/g (0.2-0.2 g/g) [sources: Pickering_2014]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1); obtuse (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): crowded (1); spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (3) [sources: Munroe_2019; White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (8) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Pickering_2014; RBGV_2022; Vesk_2007; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cheal_2017; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: ABRS_1981]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (2) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (2) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnnny (2); yynnnnnnnnny (2); yynnnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): long_persistent (1); persistent (2) [sources: Cheal_2017; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.19 mg (0.73-1.42 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.23 mm (3.23-3.23 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_width (numerical): 1.62 mm (1.62-1.62 mm) [sources: ANBG_2019]
seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric (1) [sources: ANBG_2019]

whole plant morphology

plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (2) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
White_2020	20	40	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_2023	9	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.
RBGV_2023	8	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ANBG_2019	6	9	Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Cheal_2017	8	8	D. Cheal. Growth stages and tolerable fire intervals for Victoria's native vegetation data sets. Fire and adaptive management, report no. 84. Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, 2010.
NHNSW_2023	5	7	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/.
Vesk_2007	2	6	P. Vesk. “Unpublished data: Leaf traits for flora of Falls Creek Victoria, University of Melbourne”. 2007.
Chen_2017	5	5	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.
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.
ABRS_1981	3	3	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	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	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/.
RBGV_2022	3	3	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	2	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Morgan_2014	1	1	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Trait data from Victorian alpine plant species, La Trobe University”. 2004.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.