Close buttercup

Family Ranunculaceae . Siberia. On high-mountain meadows, along riverbanks, in mixed and coniferous forests.

Perennial plants 8-30 cm tall, with fibrous roots gathered in tufts, sometimes with short obliquely shortened rhizomes. Stems simple or shortly branched in the upper part, indistinctly grooved, covered with appressed hairs, more rarely glabrous. Basal leaves on petioles covered with upward-directed hairs, at the base with short expanded sheaths, blades kidney-shaped to rounded in outline, at the base cordate or cuneate, deeply 3-parted, the middle lobe cuneate-obovate, incised-serrate with bluntish teeth, the lateral ones broader, unequally 2-cleft and dentate-serrate. Stem leaves few, sessile or sometimes shortly petiolate, palmately divided into 3-5 oblong entire segments. Flowers solitary or 2-6 together, 1.8-2.5 cm in diameter, golden; sepals elongate-ovate, reflexed, densely covered with hairs, petals 5-8, 2-3 times longer than the sepals, obovate. Receptacle glabrous. Pedicels cylindrical, not grooved. Achenes glabrous, obliquely ovoid, laterally compressed, narrowly margined, ca. 2.5 mm long, with a short curved beak, flatly expanded at the base.

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