Synonyms: Batrachium APNI*
Description: Pilose or glabrous annuals or perennials.
Leaves commonly forming a rosette, simple or compound, often palmately lobed or divided.
Flowers solitary or in cymes, actinomorphic, bisexual. Sepals usually 5. Petals usually 5 or more, rarely fewer, yellow or white [or reddish], each with a nectary towards the base and commonly covered by a nectary lobe, rarely nectaries more numerous or not ± basal. Stamens usually numerous. Carpels many.
Fruit a head of achenes, each with a short beak derived from the persistent style.
Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 400–500 species, chiefly northern & southern temperate regions. Australia: c. 47 species (10 species naturalized), all States.
Text by B. G. Briggs & R. O. Makinson
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