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Rumex sanguineus

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Name

Identification
Rumex sanguineus L. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Lapathum sanguineum (L.) Lam. [family POLYGONACEAE ] Verified by Linnaeus, Carl,
Related name
  • Rumex nemolapathum
  • Rumex sanguineus
  • Lapathum sanguineum
  • Rumex sp.
Common name
  • Wood or redvein or bloodwort dock, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for RUMEX sanguineus 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 sanguineus Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 334;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 49; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1211.
Information
a perennial; stem up to 4 ft. high, slender, red; leaves up to 6 in. long, oblong-lanceolate contracted above the usually cordate base, slightly undulate, entire or minutely crenulate, petiolate, midrib red; panicle lax, usually leafless; whorls distant, many-flowered; pedicels slender, jointed near the base; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base, entire, one or all with a subglobose tubercle. null
Range
Also in Europe, Western Asia; introduced into North America.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1276!

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