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Synonyms:
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Rumex suffocatus Bertol.
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| Frequency:
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| Status:
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Introduced |
Description:
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Much-branched perennial herb, up to 1 m tall. Stems longitudinally ribbed. Leaves ovate-oblong, 3-16 cm long, fleshy, papillate or hairy on the veins below, slightly cordate at the base; lower leaves pandurate; upper leaves lanceolate; margin finely scalloped. Flowers bisexual in numerous many-flowered whorls, together forming a spreading branched inflorescence, 15-60 cm long, leafy at the base and naked below. Fruiting perianth segments with 6-7 long, narrow teeth. Nut dark purple-brown, shiny. |
| Notes:
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Note: Biegel 4448 is the only known record from Zimbabwe and the Flora Zambesiaca area. |
| Derivation of specific name:
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pulcher: beautiful, handsome |
| Habitat:
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Growing in wet disturbed places. |
| Altitude range: (metres) |
1450 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution:
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Native to Europe; naturalized in Western Asia, America, southern Africa and the Mascarene Islands. |
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Zimbabwe distribution:
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C |
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| Endemic status:
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| Red data list status:
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| Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature:
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Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 68.
Nogueira, I., Ortiz, S. & Paiva, J.A.R. (2006). Polygonaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Page 46.
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