Taxon: Ranunculus muricatus L.

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Common names:

• bur buttercup   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• prickle-fruit buttercup   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rough-fruit buttercup   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• sharp buttercup   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sharp crowfoot   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sharp-fruit buttercup   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sharp-point crowfoot   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• togemi-no-kitsune-no-botan   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• taggsmörblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria [e.]; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania [e.]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. [introd.].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [introd.].
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). [introd.].
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ranunculus muricatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ranunculus muricatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ranunculus muricatus.

Check other web resources for Ranunculus muricatus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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