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Rumex obtusifolius

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Name

Identification
Rumex crispus L. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Rumex obtusifolius L. [family POLYGONACEAE ]
Related name
  • Rumex steudelii
  • Rumex sylvestris
  • Rumex paulsenianus
  • Rumex daghestanicus
  • Rumex acutus
  • Rumex purpureus
  • Rumex obtusifolius
  • Rumex orientalis
  • Rumex dentatus
  • Rumex crispus
Common name
  • Broad-leaved or broadleaf or bitter dock, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • Narrow-leaved or narrowleaf dock, Flora of North America Vol. 5
  • patience a feuilles obtuses, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for RUMEX nepalensis Spreng. [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 nepalensis Spreng. [family POLYGONACEAE], Syst. ii. 159;—Meisn. Syn. Polyg. 64, in Linnæa, xiv. 492, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 55; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 51; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1810; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 60; Baker and C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 117.
RUMEX obtusifolius T. Thoms. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 645, not of Linn.
RUMEX obtusifolius Oliv. var. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141
RUMEX obtusifolius Hook. f. var. Steudelii [family POLYGONACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 214.
RUMEX Steudelii Hochst. ex A. Br. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Flora, 1841, i. 278; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 204
RUMEX Steudelii A. Rich. var. cordifolius [family POLYGONACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 229.
RUMEX steudelianus Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 56
RUMEX steudelianus Meisn. var. cordifolius [family POLYGONACEAE], l.c.
RUMEX ramulosus E. Meyer ex Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 55.
RUMEX hamulosus E. Meyer ex Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 693.
Information
stem erect, 2–4 ft. high; radical leaves up to 14 in. long and 5 in. wide, ovate-oblong or triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse, more or less cordate at the base, upper narrowed at the base and often sessile; panicle terminal; whorls distant; pedicels slender; inner perianth-segments orbicular-ovate, one or all with a large wart on the back, edged with hooked laciniæ, strongly reticulate. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and from Asia Minor and Java.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; Kraai River, 4500 ft., Drège! Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuw Berg Range, near Quaggas Drift, 3800 ft., Bolus, 2593!COAST REGION British Kaffraria; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 1134!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 1407! Natal; in swamps on the Drakensberg, Evans, 383!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Harrismith, Sankey, 253! Basuto-land; without precise locality, Cooper, 2986! Transvaal; Fountain Grove, Miss Leendertz, 654!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Oldenburg, 527!
Notes
A specimen collected by Wood (4005) near the mouth of the Umgeni, Natal, consists of a plant with old fruit and two detached leaves. The fruit agrees with that of R. obtusifolius, Linn., but the leaves, which are oblong, 8 in. long, 2 in. wide, acute at both ends and on petioles 5 in. long, are more like those of R. crispus, Linn. It comes nearest to R. nepalensis, Spreng., of the South African species, but may be a hybrid.

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