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Rumex subg. Rumex

rumex veine, vein dock, veiny dock, wild-begonia
Habit Plants synoecious (rarely polygamodioecious or dioecious individuals occur in some species).
Leaf

blades variable, cuneate, truncate, rounded, or cordate at base, but never hastate or sagittate, unlobed or in some species with rounded basal lobes.
Pedicels

articulated near middle or in proximal part (sometimes articulation indistinct).
Flowers

normally bisexual or, sometimes, bisexual and unisexual (staminate and pistillate on same plant) within same inflorescence;

outer tepals normally angled towards inner tepals, or sometimes spreading;

inner tepals distinctly enlarged, always distinctly wider and longer than achene;

tubercles present or absent.

Rumex subg. Rumex
Distribution
Nearly wordwide
Discussion

Species at least 150 (53 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Polygonaceae > subfam. Polygonoideae > Rumex
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms subg. Lapathum, R. section Lapathum, R. subg. Lapathum
Name authority unknown
Source FNA vol. 5, p. 504. Treatment author: Sergei L. Mosyakin.
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