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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Polygonaceae
Rumex tenax

Citation: Rech. f., Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 84:40 (1935).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial with erect divaricately branched stems, 15-50 cm high; basal leaves with long petioles, narrow-linear, 90-160 x c. 5 mm; stem leaves reducing.

Clusters many-flowered, dense, distant, all with a subtending leaf; pedicels as long as or longer than the fruiting perianth.

Valves 2.5-3 mm long, all valves with a callosity, apices straight and mucronate, surface pitted, with 1 strong tooth on each side.

image of FSA1_Rumex_ten.jpg
Image source: fig. 99n in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Rechinger (1984) Nuytsia 5:103, fig. 8.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, EA, EP, MU, SL.   All mainland States.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: March — May, Sept., Oct.


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