Plants developing basal rosette of leaves (sometimes, especially in annual species, not persistent at maturity); rootstock usually vertical (in some species creeping). Stems mostly erect, solitary or several from base, not branching below terminal paniculate inflorescence, without axillary shoots. Leaf-blades variable in shape, base cordate to narrowly cuneate. Inner tepals with margins entire or variously dentate.

Distribution

Nearly worldwide

Discussion

Species ca. 110 (33 in the flora).

"/2" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

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unwinged +  and weakly winged +
tan;dark-brown +
pyramidal +, compressed-3-gonous +  and 3-gonous +
yellow +  and brownish yellow +
ovate +  and elongate +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
Rumex Linnaeus Sect.. Rumex +
not articulated +
cordate +  and narrowly cuneate +
crisped;undulate;flat;crisped;undulate;flat +
foliaceous +  and perfoliate +
scale-like +
tuberculate +
just below the soil surface or and above the soil surface +  and spreading +
Nearly worldwide +
free +  and distinct +
unisexual +, bisexual +  and , +
disarticulating +  and solid +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
always distinctly wider and longer +
nonmembranous +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
dentate +  and entire +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
entire +, orbiculate +  and linear +
smaller +
narrower +
swollen +
partly +  and foliaceous +
deciduous +  and persistent +
cylindric +
membranous +
anatropous +, , +  and orthotropous +
accrescent +
spreading;erect +
red;pinkish;red;pinkish;green +
campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
(2-)3(-4)-carpellate +
Sp. Pl. +  and Gen. Pl. ed. +
1753 +  and 1754 +
dawson1979a +
slender;stout +
not scapose +
papillose-pubescent +  and glabrous +
plumose +  and fimbriate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
distinct +
reflexed;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Rumex sect. Simplices +
Rumex sect. Rumex +
Rumex subg. Rumex +
section +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
annual +, biennial +  and perennial +
10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +