%0 Journal Article
%A S. K. Srivastava
%T Revision of Genus Ranunculus L. (Ranunculaceae) in India
%D 2010
%J Taiwania
%V 55
%N 3
%P 273-314
%U https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/1143
%X The genus Ranunculus L. in India is taxonomically revised, based on morphological and phytogeographacial
patterns. Forty-five taxa (41 species and 4 varieties) of Ranunculus have been recognized, of these, the taxonomic complexicity
among the Ranunuculs cantoniensis DC., R. diffusus DC., R. hyperboreus Rottb. and R. pulchellus C.A.Mey. have been resolved in
this treatment, and also several taxa were treated as synonymous to these species by the earlier workers, have been segregated either
as infra- specific taxa or were merged under the species proper. Efforts have been made to check and study each and every taxon of
Ranunculus known from India, represented in all the Indian and European herbaria and from the literature. Sixteen species of
Ranunculus show a very meager representation in the herbaria and in the field as well. The present work also includes the
lectotypification of eight species (article submitted for publication). A key to the species, nomenclatural citation of each species,
their synonyms, details of type, taxonomic description, phenology, distribution in India and worldwide, exsiccata, ecological and
taxonomical notes if any, have been provided. Line drawings of the habit and details of each species have been drawn wherever
possible, based on the availability of the materials.The distribution of all the species in India has been shown on the maps.
%M doi:10.6165/tai.2010.55(3).273