Talk:List of Ranunculus species

Organizing principles?
I'd like to add a few species to this list, but I'm unclear on some of the organizing principles. Why are certain species bolded and others not? Should authorities be linked once per row? Per table? Per page? Some clarification from the original author would be appreciated. Choess (talk) 14:47, 20 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I just got back to updating this table, but I think that my intent was to show the accepted names in bold face and synonyms in normal, but as you can see I didn't get very far with that. Ideally it would be those names with links that are the accepted ones, but I think there were are few Ranunculus articles using synonyms as titles, so I wanted make that clear. However, I'm not sure how good my sources were at the time, since I did a poor job of footnoting. And I probably didn't handle subspecies consistently. So it may be best to go back and un-bold all of them or somehow make it clear what the bold-face means.  In fact, it's likely that there are so many synonyms that to be both consistent and realistic we wouldn't show any of them. But then of-course commonly used synonyms could not be looked up and would probably get added by someone at some point anyway.  So I'm open to any idea you might have about how to proceed.


 * As for the author links, I think the standard is that only the first appearance in the article gets a link. But since this is a big list, maybe the first instance in each letter's table would be good. As a reader, I don't like looking back to see where there might be a link to something I'm curious about, so I wouldn't be opposed to linking them all, but once per table would probably be more acceptable.


 * Thanks for pointing out the inconsistencies and please let me know any thoughts that you may have on improving this list. — Nonenmac (talk) 14:31, 21 December 2011 (UTC)


 * In a few cases, I was listing synonyms under accepted Ranunculus species names, but I think this is where we would run into trouble trying to fit in all synonyms, and they looked too much like subtaxa anyway, so I think I'll remove synonyms under the accepted species (unless one of their listed subspecies is itself a synonym). But I will leave any synonyms that have a row of their own, and then just provide a link to the accepted species name. — Nonenmac (talk) 18:46, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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Ranunculus cincinnatus
Found in Scottish lochs.  scope_creep Talk  07:51, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

About the list
On the list are not 500-600 species, but less then 160. Now how many Ranunculus sp. are in reality? DenesFeri (talk) 09:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I posed your question at WT:PLANTS. Not sure there's a definitive answer to this (yet)! Declangi (talk) 22:41, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I'm already colaborating with someone on the Wikispecies. Regards. DenesFeri (talk) 07:55, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Out of date species list
It appears that this species list, and the reference cited, including The Plant List are out of date and do not conform with Plants of the World Online. (This editor only interested in Australian flora.) Gderrin (talk) 21:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Plants of the World Online lists 1691 species. The tabular format of this list makes it exceedingly tedious to keep up to date. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I appreciate all the work you did creating this article the way it is, but there were only 168 entries treated as full species (i.e. with wikilinks), so far as I can tell, whereas Plants of the World Online lists 1691, so the overwhelming majority are missing. (Also some listed here are not in this genus now, and have been removed, so there are now under 168.) I'm really not sure what is the best approach. Maybe give the full "unadorned" list from PoWO, and then treat the table here now as "selected species"? Peter coxhead (talk) 08:49, 27 March 2023 (UTC)