About
Contact
Links
Electronic Flora of South Australia
Electronic Flora of South Australia
Census of SA Plants, Algae & Fungi
Identification tools
 

Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Polygonaceae
Rumex bidens

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 421 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mud dock.

Description:
Perennials growing in water, with swollen almost bladdery stems to c. 75 cm high, monoecious; leaves 5-20 X 1-7 cm, lanceolate.

Clusters many-flowered, the upper ones male, the lower chiefly female, all or nearly all floral leaves decreasing in size upwards; flowers c. 6 mm diam.; valves 3-6 mm long, light-yellow, broad, obtuse, with 1-3 rigid teeth on each side and a more or less defined oblong tubercle.

Nut c. 3 mm long; seed c. 2 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, triangular.

image of FSA1_Rumex_bid.jpg
Image source: fig. 99c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 233.

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

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: throughout the year.


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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


Disclaimer Copyright Disclaimer Copyright Email Contact:
State Herbarium of South Australia
Government of South Australia Government of South Australia Government of South Australia Department for Environment and Water