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Polygonum herniarioides

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Identification
Polygonum plebeium R. Br. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Polygonum herniarioides Del. [family POLYGONACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Polygonum herniarioides Del. [family POLYGONACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2009
Related name
  • Polygonum plebeium
  • Polygonum induratum
  • Polygonum aviculare
  • Polygonum gussonei
  • Polygonum herniarioides

Flora

Entry for POLYGONUM aviculare Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 459, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
POLYGONUM aviculare Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 362;—Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 486, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 97; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1229; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 26; Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 379, 420; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 311; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 105; var. dregeanum, Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 486.
POLYGONUM dregeanum Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Linnæa, xiv. 487; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 58, 131.
POLYGONUM Dregei Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 98.
POLYGONUM herniarioides Drège [family POLYGONACEAE], l.c. 93, notof Del.
POLYGONUM herniarioides Meisn. var. prostratum [family POLYGONACEAE], Syn. Polyg. 62, in Linnæa, xiv. 486, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 93.
POLYGONUM Roxburghii Meisn. var. longifolium [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 93.
Information
a polymorphic species; stem procumbent, branched from the base, upper part ascending, more rarely erect, ribbed, glabrous or minutely scabrous; leaves oblong, lanceolate or linear, up to 1 in. long and 3 lin. wide, but usually smaller, glabrous or scabrous on the margin, entire; ochreæ silvery, membranous, long laciniate; flowers in 3–5-flowered axillary fascicles; pedicels short, jointed at the apex; perianth 1 lin. long, tapering downwards; stamens 8; styles 3; nut ovoid-trigonous, not longer than the perianth, minutely rugose, not shining. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Victoria West Div.; Nieuwe Veld, Drège! Albert Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1377!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Claremont Flats, Wolley-Dod, 621! Riversdale Div.; between Zoetemelks River and Little Vet River, Burchell, 6821! Queenstown Div.; Engotini, near Shiloh, Baur, 966!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; near Kokstad, Haygarth in Herb. Wood ., 4273! Natal; Van Reenans Pass, 5000 ft., Wood, 4564!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1759/1! Basutoland; without precise locality, Cooper, 3057! Transvaal; Pretoria, 4400 ft., Miss Leendertz, 411! Townlands, Zeerust, Evans, 9! Groot Vlei, Heidelburg Distr., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin ., 7866! Potchefstroom, Burtt-Davy, 1771! Mathibis Kom, between Lorenzo Marques and Komati River, Bolus, 9755! Farm Ludlow, Springbok Flats, Burtt-Davy, 2494!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Oldenburg, 2168! Bowker!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Verleptpram, Drège!
Notes
A native of the North Temperate Zone of the Old World; now widely dispersed. This species much resembles P. plebeium, R. Br. (Prodr. 420), with which it is easily confused in the flowering state, but can be distinguished when in fruit by the nut of the latter being smooth and shining.

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