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Taxon: Genus Ranunculus L. (1753) - buttercups and crowfoots (plant)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Plantae - (Phylum) Tracheophyta - (Class) Magnoliopsida - (Order) Ranunculales - (Family) Ranunculaceae

Original position

Polyandria Polygynia (Order) L. (1753), nom. inval.

Current position

Ranunculeae (Tribe)

Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2008: 726.

Alternative positions

*Polyandria Polygynia* (Order) L. (1753), nom. inval.	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1753a: 548.
*Ranunculaceae* (Family) Juss. (1789), nom. cons.	Ref: D. Bramwell, 1997: 22; PL1(5 Sep 2011).

Historical positions

*Ranunculeae* (Tribe)	Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2008: 726.
*Ranunculeae* (Tribe)	Ref: A. Takhtajan, 1997: 94.
*Ranunculaceae* (Family) Juss. (1789), nom. cons.	Ref: R. van der Meijden, 1990: 151.
*Ranunculaceae* (Family) Juss. (1789), nom. cons.	Ref: A. Cronquist, 1982: 368.
*Polyandria Polygynia* (Order) L. (1753), nom. inval.	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1753a: 548.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	51s;11ss;4v
2010	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden: 10 Aug 2011	360s

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