Mount Cook Lillies. Ranunculus lyallii, is a species of Ranunculus, endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs in the South Island and on Stewart Island at altitudes of 700-1500 m. R. lyallii is the largest species in the genus Ranunculus, growing over a meter in height. 'Among his many important botanical discoveries in this survey was that of the monarch of all buttercups, the gigantic white-flowered Ranunculus lyallii, the only known species with peltate leaves, the 'water-lily' of the New Zealand shepherdsÓ - Joseph Dalton Hooker (1895) 33 Journal of Botany, p209' Credit: BSpragg

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