Scientific Name: Ranunculus diminutus

Common Name: brackish buttercup

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Ranunculaceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Rhizomatous, basically terrestrial perennial. Leaves in basal rosettes.

Flowers: Bright yellow flowers on stems 1–4cm long.

Fruit: Achene – in a globular head, flattened-obovoid, 1.0–1.8 mm long. Beak slender, erect, about 1 mm long.

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Habitat Notes

Known from a single collection made in 1975 which came from Badger Island, Furneaux Group.

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Impractical Propagation material is too difficult to collect or conditions for propagation or cultivation are too specialized.

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