Ranunculaceae

R. macrorhynchus Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(6): 5 (1846-47).
Perennial, 6-20 cm, adpressed pilose or villosulous. Root tubers fusiform-cylindrical, 1-2 cm. Stern divaricately 3-10-flowered. Radical leaves 2-3-pinna-tisect, 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
subsp. trigonocarpus (Boiss.! Davis in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 23: 154 (1960). Figure 6, p. 175. Syn: R. trigonocarpus Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(8): 2 (1849)! R. dasycarpus (Stev.) Boiss. Fl. Or. l: 28 (1867); R. myriophyllus DC. var. edumeus Zohary in Pal. J. Bot. Jer. Ser. 2: 152 (1941). Fl. 4-5. Rocky slopes, disturbed steppe, 700-1200 m.
Holotype: Verosimiliter in Anatolia, Aucher (G!).
Mesopotamia. C6 Gaziantep: 11 km E of Gaziantep, 780 m, Hub.-Mor. 14287! C7 Urfa: Urfa to Hilvan, 32 km from Urfa, 700 m, D. 28214! C8 Mardin: 5 km E of Mardin, 1200 m, D. 28582!
N. Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syrian Desert. Ir.-Tur. element. The fruits are exceptionally variable, both smooth-and-glabrous and tuberculate-and-hairy achenes being found in the same population.