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Polygonum meisnerianum

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Identification
Isotype of Polygonum meisnerianum Chodat & Hassl. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Knapp, Polygonum meisnerianum Cham. & Schltdl. [family POLYGONACEAE ]
Related name
  • Polygonum dichotomum
  • Persicaria meisneriana
  • Polygonum brachypodum
  • Polygonum unrecorded
  • Polygonum pudunalaise
  • Polygonum assamica
  • Polygonum geniculatum
  • Persicaria assamica
  • Polygonum sp.
  • Persicaria peduncularis
  • Polygonum multangulare
  • Polygonum pedunculare
  • Polygonum sieboldii
  • Polygonum meisnerianum
  • Persicaria brachypodum
  • Polygonum meisneri
Common name
  • Mexican tearthumb, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for POLYGONUM meisnerianum Cham. & Schlecht. [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 meisnerianum Cham. & Schlecht. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Linnæa, iii. 40;—Meisn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. i. 19, t. 1, fig. 2, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 132.
POLYGONUM chamissœanum Wedd. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 me sér. xiii. 254.
POLYGONUM refractum Mart. ex Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 132.
Information
herbaceous; stem erect, branched, terete, furnished (especially at the nodes) with retrorse hairs; ochreæ up to 9 lin. long, truncate and shortly ciliate at the mouth, sparsely hairy; leaves shortly petioled, narrowly lanceolate, more or less cordate or hastate at the base, about 3 in. long and 6 lin. wide, sparsely hairy; clusters of flowers arranged in terminal lax pseudodichotomous panicles; rhachis slender, covered with stalked glands; bracts small, glandular; perianth rosy, 2 lin. long; lobes 5, elliptic, obtuse; stamens 5–8, much shorter than the perianth; ovary triquetrous; style 3-partite; stigmas capitate; nutlet triquetrous, smooth, shining. null
Range
Also in Brazil.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1283! Hooge Veld, Rehmann, 6585! Belfast, pools at Lakenvlei, Burtt-Davy, 1319!

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