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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Polygonaceae
Rumex conglomeratus

Citation: Murray, Prod. Stirp. gottingens. 52 (1770).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Clustered dock.

Description:
Erect perennial to c. 1 m high, with stiff ascending branches; lower leaves 3-13 X 1-4 cm, oblong-lanceolate, crisped.

Clusters many-flowered, rather distant, leafy except at the summit, forming a loose panicle; valves 2-3 mm long, entire, oblong, obtuse, each usually with a large oblong tubercle.

Seeds c. 1 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, dull-red.

Published illustration: Keble Martin (1965) The concise British flora in colour, pl. 74.

Distribution:  Almost cosmopolitan.

S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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