Smith, J.E. in Rees, A. (ed.) (1815), The Cyclopaedia 29(2): no. 61 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Native of Port Jackson, New South Wales; communicated by Dr. White."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 9 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 7-8 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus scapiger Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus cuneatus Hook. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus nanus Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus pimpinellifolius Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus colonorum Endl. legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 12-13 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus colonorum Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus discolor Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 73 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 1 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 3 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 3 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 28 [secondary reference]

common name: Buttercup [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 18, Fig. 2 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 4, 5, Plate II [secondary reference]

common name: Burr Buttercup [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 237, Fig. 107, E [secondary reference]

common name: Buttercup [n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 665 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (June 1930), Part II. Proteaceae–Papilionaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 44 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 363, Fig. 521, E [secondary reference]

common name: Buttercup [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 14 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. (1959), Ranunculus lappaceus and allied species of the Australian mainland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 84: 297-301 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. obtusatus DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. latilobus Hook.f. legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 134 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Buttercup [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 171, Fig. 161. [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 14 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 309 [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Buttercup [n/a] common name: Common Buttercup [n/a]

Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ranunculaceae, Menispermaceae, Nymphaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 87 [secondary reference]

common name: Buttercup [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 184 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Ranunculaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 171-173, Fig. 23H [secondary reference]

common name: Common Buttercup [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Ranunculaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 66 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ranunculus colonorum Endl. legitimate

Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 162 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Buttercup [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 53-54, Fig. 9c [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Buttercup [n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 338 [secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 162 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Buttercup [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus Sm. var. lappaceus legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus Sm. f. lappaceus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. pubescens DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. obtusatus DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. latilobus Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus f. multiplex F.M.Bailey legitimate

• APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Ranunculus colonorum Endl. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (June 1930), Part II. Proteaceae–Papilionaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 44

Eichler, Hj., Jeanes, J.A. & Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 334-335, Fig. 63D-E, Map 365 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. pubescens DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. obtusatus DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus var. latilobus Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ranunculus lappaceus f. multiplex F.M.Bailey legitimate common name: Common Buttercup [n/a] common name: Australian Buttercup [n/a]

Eichler, Hj., Jeanes, J.A. & Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 334 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Ranunculus colonorum Endl. legitimate by Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 12-13

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 68 [secondary reference]

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