| Name | Ranunculus japonicus Thunberg |
| Authorship | Thunberg |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Ranunculus Linnaeus |
| Contains | Ranunculus japonicus var. japonicus Ranunculus japonicus var. propinquus (C. A. Meyer) W. T. Wang |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:712987-1 |
| Citation | 1794 Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 337 |
| Holdings | 145 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Ranunculus japonicus Thunberg |
| Identification made in | [no date] (145) |