Ranunculus macrorhynchus

Ranunculus macrorhynchus

 Ssp macrorrhynchus: Yamaç yağotu; Ssp trigonocarpus: Üç yağotu

Perennial, 6-20 cm, adpressed pilose or villosulous. Root tubers fusiform-cylindrical, 1-2 cm. Stern divaricately 3-10-flowered. Radical leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, greyish, laciniae linear, 10-25 cm, entire or few-toothed. Sepals spreading. Petals broadly obovate, 10-11 mm. Fruiting head ovate-orbicular, 8-12 mm. Achenes persistent, 3-3.5 mm, with or without a short basal appendage, attenuated into a recurved, often uncinate beak 1-3 x achene. Two subspecies may be distinguished in fruit.
1. Beak of achene usually 1.5-3 x achene. strongly flattened, 1 mm broad at base subsp. macrorhynchus 
1. Beak of achene about as long as achene, more slender and scarcely flattened subsp. trigonocarpus