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Rumex persicarioides

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Identification
Rumex persicarioides Forssk. [family POLYGONACEAE ] Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1987 Rumex nervosus Vahl [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1987
Related name
  • Rumex maritimus
  • Rumex persicarioides
  • Rumex palustris
  • Rumex nervosus
Common name
  • Rumex fausse-persicaire, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for RUMEX nervosus Vahl [family POLYGONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 98, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
RUMEX nervosus Vahl [family POLYGONACEAE], Symb. i. 27. —Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 72; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 171; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 203; Britten & Rendle in Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 397; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 153.
RUMEX persicarioides Forsk. [family POLYGONACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 76, not of Linn.
RUMEX alismæfolius Fresen. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Flora, 1838, 602; Meisn. l.c.; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 230.
Information
A much-branched shrub, reaching a height of 6 ft. Leaves often crowded on short striate lateral branchlets, distinctly petioled, oblong, or the upper lanceolate, subacute, glabrous, 2–3 in. long, narrowed to the base, rather firm in texture, triplinerved; ochreæ truncate. Flowers diœcious, forming ample lax or dense terminal panicles, the very compound lower branches only subtended at the base by reduced leaves; flowers 2–5 in a cluster; pedicels capillary, often longer than the flowers. Outer perianth-segments reflexed, inner in fruit cordate-orbicular, 3 lin. in diam., scarious, strongly reticulate.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, Johnston! Meyer, 146, 154.Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Schweinfurth, 189, 1014, 591, 1035, 1818, Schweinfurth & Riva, 789! 1044! 1814!Abyssinia Nile Land near Adowa, Schimper, 152! Mettaro, Schimper, 891! and without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 77! Schimper, 1067! 1484! Plowden! Parkyns!British East Africa Nile Land Ndoli, Gregory.

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