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|accepted_name=Ranunculus macauleyi
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=15: 45. 1879
|year=1879
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Ranunculus;Ranunculus subg. Ranunculus;Ranunculus sect. Epirotes;Ranunculus macauleyi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ranunculus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Ranunculus subg. Ranunculus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Ranunculus sect. Epirotes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ranunculus macauleyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect from short caudices, 6-15 cm, glabrous or sometimes pilose, each with 1-2 flowers. <b>Roots</b> slender, 0.7-1.3 mm thick. <b>Basal</b> leaves persistent, blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, undivided, 1.5-4.5 × 0.5-1.1(-2.8) cm, base acute or long-attenuate, margins entire except for apex, apex truncate or rounded and 3(-5)-toothed. <b>Flowers</b>: pedicels glabrous or brown-pilose; receptacle glabrous; sepals 6-12 × 2.5-8 mm, abaxially densely brown-pilose; petals 5(-8), 10-19 × 6-17 mm; nectary scale glabrous. <b>Heads</b> of achenes ovoid or cylindric, 5-10 × 4-5.5 mm; achenes 1.5-1.7 × 1.2-1.3 mm, glabrous; beak slender, straight or recurved, 0.5-1.5(-2.2) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Sunny open soil of alpine meadows and slopes
|elevation=3300-3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>The type specimen of <i>Ranunculus macauleyi</i> <i></i>var.<i> brandegeei</i> L. D. Benson, from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, differs from typical <i>R. macauleyi</i> in its tall stem, broad, crenate-laciniate leaves, and sepals with pale or transparent hairs. These characteristics are suggestive of <i>R. inamoenus</i>, and the plant may be of hybrid ancestry.</p>
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name=Ranunculus macauleyi
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Sunny open soil of alpine meadows and slopes
|elevation=3300-3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1879
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
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|genus=Ranunculus
|subgenus=Ranunculus subg. Ranunculus
|section=Ranunculus sect. Epirotes
|species=Ranunculus macauleyi
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