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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Polygonaceae
Rumex obtusifolius

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 335 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Broadleaved dock.

Description:
Stem stout, to c. 1 m high; radical leaves large, sometimes to 30 X 14 cm, usually partly hairy, crenulate, cordate at the base.

Clusters many-flowered, approximate, naked or with only 1 floral leaf near the base of the long racemes; valves 4-6 mm long, ovate-triangular, obtuse, with about 3 teeth on each side below the middle, only 1 valve bearing a large tubercle.

Seeds c. 1.5 mm long, c. 0.7 mm wide, dull-red.

image of FSA1_Rumex_obt.jpg
Image source: fig. 99j in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

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

Distribution:  S.Aust.: YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Naturalised in New Zealand. Native to Europe and Asia.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.


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