Rumex usambarensis (Engl. ex Dammer) Dammer
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park
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Synonyms:
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Rumex maderensis sensu J.G. Baker & C.H. Wright non Lowe Rumex nervosus Vahl var. usambarensis Engl. ex Dammer Rumex trinervius Rech. f.
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Description:
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A straggling, sometimes climbing shrub with stems up to 3 m or more tall. Leaves often clustered, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 3.5-9 cm long, hastate at the base and narrowed above the basal lobes, distinctly 3-veined, hairless; petiole 1-4 cm long. Ocrea 1-1.5 cm long, membranous, entire,falling early. Flowers arranged in 2-6-flowered whorls on pedicels 2-5 mm long; whorls together forming leafless terminal panicles. Outer perianth segments brownish; inner segments red to reddish-brown; stamens 6. Fruit 2-2.5 mm long, trigonous,shiny brown. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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usambarensis: of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania |
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Worldwide distribution:
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DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
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Literature:
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Nogueira, I., Ortiz, S. & Paiva, J.A.R. (2006). Polygonaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Page 42.
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