Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Ranunculus millanii
Ranunculaceae Juss.
Ranunculus millanii F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 21-22 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In gravelly places on most of the summits of the Australian Alps, irrigated by melting snow."
  • Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 1 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 6-7 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "This species was named in acknowledgement of much aid which the author received during his botanical exploration of the Australian Alps, from Angus McMillan, Esq., the discoverer of Gipps Land..."
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 10-11 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 1 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 3 BHL [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 2 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 27 [secondary reference]
Melville, R. (1955), Contributions to the Flora of Australia: II. Some Ranunculi of Tasmania and south eastern Australia. Kew Bulletin 10(2): 207 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "The type locality is on Mount Wellington, Gippsland ... Mueller."
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 172 [secondary reference]
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 175, Fig. 177-8 [secondary reference]
common name: Dwarf Buttercup [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 184 [secondary reference]
Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 164 [secondary reference]
common name: Dwarf Buttercup [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 52, Fig. 9a [secondary reference]
common name: Dwarf Buttercup [n/a]
Briggs, B.G. & Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Ranunculaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 164 [secondary reference]
common name: Dwarf Buttercup [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Ranunculus millani F.Muell. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: Hybrids between R. millanii and other species (R. graniticola, R. collinus and R. victoriensis) have been given the name R. ligulatus.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic
Eichler, Hj. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Appendix. Ranunculaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 460-461 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "T: Mt Wellington, Vic., Nov. 1854, F.Mueller; lecto (here chosen): MEL (photo CANB); remaining syntypes: Bogong Ranges, F.Mueller, Dec. 1854; MEL, K (photo CANB); summit of the Australian Alps, Mt LaTrobe [Mt Loch], collector unknown (collections mounted on the same sheet): G, K (photo CANB)."
Eichler, Hj., Jeanes, J.A. & Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Ranunculaceae. Flora of Australia 2: 341, Fig. 60F-G, Map 375 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Ranunculus millani F.Muell. orth. var. isonym: Ranunculus millanii F.Muell. isonym isonym: Ranunculus millanii F.Muell. isonym
  • APC Comment: Hybrids between R. millanii and other species (R. graniticola, R. collinus and R. victoriensis) have been given the name R. ligulatus.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 68 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Ranunculus setaceus Rodway legitimate by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 2