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Flora
Entry for RUMEX crispus 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 crispusLinn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 335;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 44; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1218; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 312.
Information
an erect robust herb 2–4 ft. high; radical leaves 5–9 in. long, acute, acute to cordate at the base, undulate; cauline leaves lanceolate, the upper almost linear, all petioled; panicles terminal, leafless or with 1–2 leaves in the lower part; whorls approximate, many-flowered; pedicels slender, jointed near the base; inner perianth-segments sub-orbicular, entire, about 2 lin. in diam., sometimes wider than long, strongly reticulate, all with a large wart on the back. null
Range
Also in Europe, North Africa and Temperate Asia; introduced into North America.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Vygeskraal River, Wolley-Dod, 3592!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, along the Aapies River, Burtt-Davy, 833!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Wallich!
