Botanical name: Ranunculus munroanus    Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Synonyms: Ranunculus munroanus var. minor

Rock-Dwelling Buttercup is a perennial herb 5-15 cm high, with stems erect or rising up, slender, flaccid, simple, sparsely hairy especially in the upper part. Flowers are 0.8-1 cm wide, yellow, petals obovate, 4-5 mm long, broadly rounded to wedge-shaped. Style is short, triangular. Sepals are 5, 3-4 mm long, patent, oblong to oblong-ovate, boat-shaped, blunt or somewhat pointed, hairless. Flower-cluster-stalks are axillary, 1-5 cm, hairy. Basal leaves are carried on flaccid, long, leaf-stalks, up to 7 cm or more, blade hairless, kidney-shaped, trilobed for about 2/3, lobes broadly obovate, sometimes with one deeper incision, up to 2.5 cm wide. Stem leaves have shorter leaf-stalks, otherwise similar, the uppermost smaller. Achenes are 1 mm broad, hairless, slightly compressed, forming a spherical head, inserted on a hairless ovoid receptacle. Rock-Dwelling Buttercup is found in damp crevices, rocks at altitudes of 3800-4250 m, from NE Pakistan to W Himalaya, W. Tibet and Nepal. Flowering: April-June.

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