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Rumex tuberosus

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Name

Identification
Rumex tuberosus L. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Rumex tuberosus
  • Rumex salinus
  • Rumex luxurians

Flora

Entry for RUMEX cordatus Desf. [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 cordatus Desf. [family POLYGONACEAE], Cat. Hort. Par. ed. ii. 40;—Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 324; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 67, 112, 115; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 500, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 68; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 312.
RUMEX tuberosus Thunb. [family POLYGONACEAE], Prodr. 67, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 341, not of Linn.
RUMEX sarcorhizus Link [family POLYGONACEAE], Enum. i, 351; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 501.
Information
root pyriform; stem annual, subsimple, erect, ribbed; lower leaves cordate-ovate, obtuse, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4 in. wide, on a petiole 1 1/2 in. long, entire, glabrous, cauline hastate, smaller; panicle terminal, leafless; branches erect; flowers polygamo-diœcious in lax whorls; pedicels slender, jointed at the middle; inner perianth-segments broadly ovate, entire, strongly reticulate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof (Mamre), Bolus, 4321! near Hopefield, Bolus, 12811! Cape Div.; Cape Flats between Cape Town and Simons Bay, Burchell, 8547! sand flats beteen Paarden Island, Tygerberg and Blueberg, Drège; Lion Mountain, Ecklon, 710! near Cape Town, Bolus, 2911! Camps Bay, Alexander Prior! Caledon Div.; Bavians Kloof near Genadendal, Drège. Knysna Div.; near Groene Vallei, Burchell, 5634!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, near Columba Mission, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 725!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Pappe! Sieber, 134! Burke! Harvey, 540! Alexander Prior!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Kamies Berg, Kaspars Kloof, Elleboog Fontein and Geelbeks Kraal, Drège!

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