Ranunculus damascenus
Ranunculus damascenus
Şam düğünçiçeği
Perennial, 15-30 cm; root tubers oblong-fusiform, 1-2 cm. Stems divaricately 2-16-flowered, ± villosulous like the petioles. Radical leaves 3-lobed to 3-partite, ± cordate, truncate or broadly cuneate at base, segments cuneate and often fanning out above, the lamina with a total of 15-30 teeth. Sepals normally strongly reflexed. Petals 10-13 mm, broadly obovate. Fruiting head broadly ovate, 8-10 x 7-8 mm. Achenes rhomboid-orbicular, tuberculate, hairy, attenuated into a straight but divergent beak, 4 mm . FI. 4-5. Open, often stony places, 600-1300 m.
Syrian Desert, W. Syria, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.
