Species of buttercup
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Ranunculus pimpinellifolius, commonly known as bog buttercup, is a flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae and grows in eastern Australia. It is a low growing perennial with divided green leaves and yellow flowers.
Description.
"Ranunculus pimpinellifolius" is a perennial herb covered with soft, weak hairs or almost smooth. The leaves are mostly at the base of the stems, pinnately divided into 3-7 segments, segments usually with three lobes and rounded teeth, oval to oblong-shaped, long on a petiole long and sparse to thickly covered in spreading hairs. The flowering stems are upright or spreading, simple or occasionally branched with up to five flowers in diameter and usually five narrowly egg-shaped to oval petals, long, wide, shiny and yellow. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a smooth achene long and gradually tapering to a recurved beak long. 
Taxonomy and naming.
"Ranunculus pimpinellifolius" was first formally described in 1834 by William Jackson Hooker and the description was published in "The Journal of Botany".
Distribution and habitat.
Bog buttercup grows in boggy locations, wet grasslands and herbfields at higher altitudes in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
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