Rumex patientia (PROSEA)
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Distribution
Native to central Europe and East Asia, but naturalized in the highlands of many tropical countries.
Uses
In Java, occasionally cultivated as a vegetable, but it could be used medicinally as well.
Observations
A perennial herb, 1-2 m tall; basal leaves ovate-lanceolate, base rounded to narrowed, margin slightly undulate or not; inflorescence a panicle; flowers bisexual, inner perianth segments enlarged in fruit, orbicular, 6-10 mm long, base subcordate, often denticulate, only one valve with a well developed tubercle; nutlet 3-4 mm long. In Java, R. patientia is occasionally found as an escape from cultivation, up to 2550 m altitude.
Selected sources
74, 647, 696, 914.
Authors
Nguyen Thi Do