Ranuneulus ficariifolius A. Leveille & Venoit in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 51: 289. 1904. R. flaccidus Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 20. 1872 (non Pers. 1795).

Perennial tufted prostrate or decumbent herbs, occuring in dense patches; stems very slender, often rooting at nodes. Leaves small, broadly ovate, reniform or suborbicular, 3 - 15 mm long and broad, acute or subacute, truncate or cordate at base, 5 - 7 -toothed along margins, glabrous; petioles 0.3 - 5 cm long, sheathing at base. Flowers solitary, small, leaf-opposed, ca 1 cm across, yellow, on scapes opposite to leaf. Sepals reflexed, elliptic, 1.5 - 5 mm. Petals obovate, 2.5 - 3.5 x 1.5 - 3 mm, yellow. Achenes 6 -12, pubescent, with small tubercles, ellipsoid, compressed, surrounded by a narrow rim, glabrous,ca 1.75 - 1 mm; style weakly hooked, short, reflexed, deciduous.

Fl. & Fr. June - July.

Distrib. India: Himalayas, in marshy places by the side of streams, 1200-3200 m. Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim..

Nepal, Bhutan and China.