Ranunculus chiusDC.

WFO wfo-0000461689 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ranunculus chius, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-11 / obs. 198314851
Ranunculus chius, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198314879
Ranunculus chius, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198314918
Ranunculus chius, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198314955
Ranunculus chius, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198315012

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Ranunculus chius is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe CyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaCorseGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe Sardegna
Native distribution of Ranunculus chius, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ranunculus incrassatus Guss.
  • Ranunculus schraderianus Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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