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Polygonum punctatum

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Identification
Polygonum punctatum [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Polygonum metzianum
  • Polygonum not on sheet
  • Polygonum punctatum
  • Polygonum acre
  • Polygonum densiflorum
  • Polygonum longiocreatum
  • Polygonum barbatum
  • Polygonum alatum
Common name
  • Dotted smartweed, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • r enouée robuste, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • r enouée ponctuée, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • Stout smartweed, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for POLYGONUM alatum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don [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 alatum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don [family POLYGONACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Nep. 72;—Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. 154; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 41; Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 404, 427; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 104.
POLYGONUM punctatum Meisn. var. alatum [family POLYGONACEAE], Monogr. Polyg. 85.
Information
an erect or procumbent annual; stem slender, glabrous, internodes long; leaves ovate or deltoid-ovate, up to 1 in. long and 9 lin. wide, entire, acute, minutely verrucose; petiole 3–6 lin. long, broadly winged, wing often cordate at the base; ochreæ tubular, oblique, membranous, entire; flowers in capitate few-flowered cymes subtended by a reduced leaf at the apex of slender branches, which are glandular or slightly hairy at their tips; perianth 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes about as long as the tube, oblong, obtuse; stamens 6–8, much shorter than the perianth; filaments narrowly lanceolate; anthers dark brown, cells discrete; ovary compressed; styles 2, nearly as long as the ovary, united nearly half-way; nut lenticular, chestnut-brown, shining, very minutely verrucose. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Madagascar and Tropical Asia, probably introduced into South Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; Malowe, 4500 ft., Tyson, 3093! Natal; near Byrne, Wood, 3432!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosch (Woodbush) Mountains, 6300 ft., Schlechter, 4715; Belfast, Burtt-Davy, 1394!

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