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Ficaria
| Description | Ficaria is a small genus of several species of plants in the family Ranunculaceae, which were previously grouped with Ranunculus. The genus includes Ficaria verna, known as fig buttercup or lesser celandine, and related species. The name "Ficaria" is Classical Latin for fig. Plants in the genus are closely related to true buttercups, but generally have only three sepals and swollen smooth achenes. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficaria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Ranunculales : Ranunculaceae : Ficaria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Ficaria Huds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficaria |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Ficaria fascicularis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ficaria verna species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
