page_title: Ranunculus pinguis
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Ranunculus pinguis / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: jpg of Plate I of Hooker's Flora Antarctica. Ranunculus pinguis Hook. fil.
context_page_description: Ranunculus pinguis is a dark green, fleshy-leaved buttercup with relatively large, short-stalked flowers and narrow stiff yellow petals that grows in tufts. It is an endemic species of New Zealand on the Auckland and Campbell Islands that flowers from December to January and sets seeds between February and April.
context_section_description: There are some differences between the populations on both archipelagos. Auckland specimens often have somewhat narrowly orbicular hairless leaves, and more numerous and larger petals that regularly carry three nectarines. Campbell plants on the other hand often have round to kidney-shaped leaves covered by short but very fine silky hairs. Both populations vary in these characteristics and there is no reason to separate them taxonomically. Genetic analysis shows that R. pinguis is sister to a group consisting of R. gunnianus, R. pachyrrhizus, R. sericophyllus and R. viridis.
caption: Plate I[3] from the Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands
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