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Information Plants perennial, glabrous or very indistinctly papillose normally only on veins of leaf blades abaxially, with fusiform, vertical rootstock. Stems erect, branched distal to middle, 40–80(–130) cm. Leaves: ocreae usually deciduous, rarely partially persistent at maturity; blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, normally 15–25(–30) × 2–7 cm, base cuneate or truncate, margins entire or irregularly denticulate, usually crisped and undulate, or, occasionally, flat, apex acute or subobtuse. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 1/2 of stem, dense or interrupted at base, narrowly paniculate, branches usually straight or occasionally arcuate. Pedicels articulated in proximal 1/3, filiform, 3–8 mm, articulation distinctly swollen. Flowers 20–25 in whorls; inner tepals orbiculate-ovate or occasionally ovate-deltoid, 3.5–5 × 3–5 mm, base truncate or slightly cordate, margins denticulate, apex acute or subacute, teeth 4–10 at each side, 0.2–1.5 mm; tubercles normally 3, equal or subequal, less than 2 times as wide as inner tepals. Achenes usually reddish brown or dark brown, 2–2.5(–3) × 1–1.5 mm. 2n = 60.

Information Herbs, perennial, biennial, or annual, synoecious (subg. Rumex and Platypodium) or dioecious (subg. Acetosa and Acetosella), occasionally polygamomonoecious, with taproots and usually short caudex, or sometimes rhizomatous and/or stoloniferous. Stems erect, ascending, or prostrate, glabrous or papillose-pubescent. Leaves basal (in some species) and cauline, alternate, petiolate; ocrea persistent or partially deciduous, membranous; petioles present on basal and proximal cauline leaves, absent on distal cauline leaves, bases not articulated; blades variable in shape, basal (if present) and proximal cauline leaves from broadly ovate or almost orbiculate to linear, becoming progressively smaller and narrower distally, margins entire (or basally lobate), flat, or occasionally undulate or crisped. Inflorescences terminal, sometimes terminal and axillary, paniclelike, rarely simple. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, (1–)4–30 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth green, pinkish, or red, campanulate, glabrous; tepals (5–)6, connate proximally, sepaloid, dimorphic, outer 3 remaining small, inner 3 usually enlarging, sometimes 1–3 with central vein transformed into tuberculate callosity (tubercle); stamens 6; filaments distinct, free, glabrous; anthers, yellow to brownish yellow, ovate to elongate; styles 3, spreading or reflexed, distinct; stigmas 3, fimbriate or plumose. Achenes included in accrescent and usually veiny perianth, tan to dark brown, unwinged to weakly winged, 3-gonous, sometimes compressed-3-gonous or nearly pyramidal, glabrous. Seeds: embryo straight. x = 7, 8, 9, 10 (polyploidy widespread in the genus).

Information Plants perennial, glabrous or distinctly papillose especially on veins of leaf blades abaxially, with fusiform, vertical rootstock. Stems erect, often flexuous in distal part, branched in distal 2/3, occasionally almost from base, 20–60(–70) cm. Leaves: ocrea deciduous or partially persistent at maturity; blade oblong to ovate-oblong, sometimes broadly lanceolate or panduriform, contracted near middle or proximally, 4–10(–15) × (2–)3–5 cm, less than 4 times as long as wide, base normally truncate or weakly cordate, occasionally rounded, margins entire, flat or undulate, rarely slightly crisped, apex obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 2/3 of stem or more, usually lax and interrupted, broadly paniculate, branches usually divaricately spreading, forming angle of 60–90° with 1st-order stem. Pedicels articulated in proximal 1/3 or occasionally near middle, thickened, not filiform, 2–5(–6) mm, articulation distinctly swollen. Flowers 10–20 in rather dense whorls; inner tepals ovate-triangular, deltoid, or oblong-deltoid, 3–6 × 2–3 mm (excluding teeth), normally ca. 1.5 times as long as wide, base truncate, margins usually distinctly dentate, rarely subentire, apex obtuse to subacute, straight, teeth 2–5(–9), normally on margins at each side, narrowly triangular, 0.3–2.5 mm, longer or shorter than width of inner tepals; tubercles (1–)3, equal or unequal, usually verrucose (warty). Achenes dark reddish brown to almost black, 2–2.8 × 1.3–2 mm. 2n = 20.

Information Plants herbaceous. Stems prost-rate, climbing, or erect, glabrous. Leaves petiolate (to 1.5 cm) or sessile; blade ovate, lance-elliptic, or spatulate to oblanceolate, (3–)5–9(–15) × (1–)2.5–4(–7) cm, base attenuate, apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse. Inflorescences 3–15(–30) cm, rachises glandular, viscid; floral bracts lanceolate, 3–7 × 1–2 mm. Flowers heterostylous; calyx 7–11(–13) mm, tube glabrous but with stalked glands along length of ribs; corolla white, 17–33 mm, tube 12.5–28 mm (less than 2 times length of calyx), lobes 5–12 × 3–3.5 mm; stamens included. Capsules 7.5–8 mm. Seeds reddish brown to dark brown, 5–6 mm.