851 Ranunculus auricomus L.

This species s. lat. is mainly restricted to Europe (cf. Fl. Eur. 1/1964, p. 232). The range is preliminarily drawn. Among the taxa belonging to the R. auricomus group, R. monophyllus Ovcz. (syn.: R. auricomus subsp. sibiricus [Glehn] Korsh.) with a wide Eurasiatic distribution is tentatively presented on the map. It is at present impossible to map separately all the apomictic taxa of the group. See, however, the map of subsp. calvescens H. Sm. ex Fagerstr. & Kvist in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 17/1980, p. 300. For further information see Julin's monograph of R. auricomus taxa in E.C. Sweden and literature quoted there (Op. Bot. [Lund] 57 /1980). For recently discribed taxa see Fagerström & Kvist in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 19/1982, p. 53-64. Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 165.