Rumex nepalensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Rumex nepalensis Sprengel

Protologue: Syst. 2: 159 (1825).

Family: Polygonaceae

• Vietnam: chút chít nêpan.

India and Sri Lanka, South-West China, northern Vietnam, Java, westward to Asia Minor, the Balkan Peninsula and southern Europe; also in South Africa.

In India, the leaves are applied to swellings.

• A perennial herb, 60-170 cm tall, rhizome stout.
• Lower leaves oblong-ovate, 20-30 cm × 12-20 cm, 1.5-3 times longer than broad, base cordate, margins undulate-denticulate, crispy or flat, puberulous beneath, long petiolate, cauline and upper leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate, base cordate to rounded or subtruncate, short petiolate.
• Inflorescence an open panicle, branches spreading, almost leafless, whorls of flowers somewhat remote.
• Flowers bisexual, inner perianth segments more or less oblong-ovate, 3-4 mm long in fruit, including teeth, apex circinately incurled, at least 1 segment with pronounced fusiform tubercle.
• Nutlet 3-5 mm × 2-2.5 mm.

R. nepalensis occurs along roadsides, scrubland and forest clearings, on Java at 2100-2800 m altitude.

• [74] Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C., 1964—1968. Flora of Java. 3 volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. Vol. 1 (1964) 647 pp., Vol. 2 (1965) 641 pp., Vol. 3 (1968) 761 pp.
• [838] A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon (various editors), 1980—2000. Volume 1—9. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi, India. Volume 10—14. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

• Rumex (Medicinal plants)

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