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Ranunculus trichophyllus

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Family Ranunculaceae

Taxonomy: Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Batrachium trichophyllum (Chaix) Bosch (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Batrachium trichophyllum (Chaix) Des Moul. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Batrachium trichophyllum (Chaix) F.W.Schultz (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ranunculus aquatilis var. trichophyllus (Chaix) A.Gray (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ranunculus drouetii F.W.Schultz ex Godr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ranunculus pectinatus Dubois (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix subsp. trichophyllus (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ranunculus trichophyllus subsp. drouetii (F.W.Schultz ex Godr.) A.R.Clapham (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ranunculus trichophyllus subsp. drouettii (F.W.Schultz ex Godr.) P.Fourn. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ranunculus aquatilis L. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic, Tas (uncertain origin)

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (5), ABRS_2023 (13), Chen_2017 (6), Kew_2019_1 (3), Mokany_2015 (1), Morgan_2011_1 (4), NHNSW_2014_2 (3), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (5), RBGV_2022 (5), RBGV_2023 (7), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (40). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 44 traits from 115 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 7 mm (1.5-17.5 mm) [sources: Chen_2017; ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): achene (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_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): 1.96 mm2 (1.96-1.96 mm2) [sources: Mokany_2015]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 27.88 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 30 mm (10-50 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.06 cm (0.25-4 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): filiform (2); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): spiral (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; Morgan_2011_1; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • plant_growth_substrate (categorical): aquatic (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): submerged (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022]
  • 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); undefined (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnnyyy (3); yyynnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Chen_2017; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (3) [sources: Morgan_2011_1; White_2020]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.3 mg (0.18-0.41 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
White_20202040M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
ABRS_20231013Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_202368S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_202357VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Chen_201766Chen, 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.
ABRS_202255Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_202345N. 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/.
RBGV_202255VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Morgan_2011_144J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Grassy woodland traits, La Trobe University”. 2011.
NHNSW_202244N. 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/.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2014_233Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Mokany_201511K. Mokany, J. J. Thomson, A. J. J. Lynch, G. J. Jordan, and S. Ferrier. “Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change”. Ecological Applications 25.8 (2015), pp. 2132-2141. doi: 10.1890/14-2384.1.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.