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Rumex acetosella

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Name

Identification
Rumex acetosella L. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rumex acetosella
  • Rumex sp.
  • Rumex acetoselloides
Common name
  • petite oseille, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • Grass-leaved or grassleaf sorrel, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • oseille, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • Sheep or field sorrel, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • sûrette, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for RUMEX Acetosella 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
RUMEX Acetosella Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 338;—Thunb. Prodr. 67, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 341; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 496, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 63; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 107; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1224; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 311.
Information
stem herbaceous, erect, simple or sparingly branched, 3 in. to 1 ft. high; leaves hastate, more rarely oblong, up to 1 1/4 in. long but usually much smaller, terminal lobe much larger than the lateral and up to 8 lin. wide, quite entire, petioled; panicle terminal, leafless, with erect branches; pedicels short, jointed at the apex; inner perianth-segments ovate, entire. null
Range
Almost cosmopolitan.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Rondebosch, between the Steen Berg and Constantia, below 1000 ft., Drège! Wynberg Flats, Alexander Prior! Westenford, Wolley-Dod, 1896! Tokay, Ecklon, 711! Humansdorp Div.; Storms River, 600 ft., Galpin, 4430!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Cala, 4000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1685! Natal; Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4032!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Beznidenhout Valley, Johannesberg, Gilfillan, in Herb. Galpin, 7235! Pretoria Kopjes, Miss Leendertz, 956!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Burke.

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