Rumex fascicularis

Small

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 367, plate 246. 1895.

Endemic
Synonyms: Rumex verticillatus subsp. fascicularis (Small) Á. Löve
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 507. Mentioned on page 491.

Plants perennial, glabrous, with vertical rootstock [and, according to Rechinger f. (1937), with fusiform-incrassate root fibers]. Stems ascending or decumbent, usually producing axillary shoots below 1st-order inflorescence or at proximal nodes, 50–60 (–70) cm. Leaf-blades with lateral-veins forming angle of ca. 80° with midvein especially near base, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 10–25 × 4–12 cm, usually ca. 2 times as long as wide, fleshy, coriaceous, base rounded or truncate-cuneate, occasionally indistinctly cordate, margins entire, flat, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, terminal usually occupying distal 1/3–1/2 of stem, usually lax, interrupted in proximal part, broadly paniculate. Pedicels articulated in proximal part, distinctly thickened distally 8–13 mm, (2.5–) 3–4 times as long as inner tepals, articulation slightly swollen. Flowers 10–20 in whorls; inner tepals orbiculate or rounded-triangular, 4–5 × 4–5 mm, base truncate or subcordate, margins entire, or rarely indistinctly erose, apex acute or acuminate (with broadly triangular tip); tubercles 3, equal or subequal, minutely punctate and/or rugose in proximal part. Achenes brown or dark-brown, 2–2.5 (–3) × 1.8–2.5 mm. 2n = 60.


Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat: Swamps, marshes, wet meadows, shores of lakes and rivers
Elevation: 0-100 m

Discussion

Rumex fascicularis was mentioned for North Carolina (Á. Löve 1986). It is closely related to and sometimes treated as a subspecies of R. verticillatus.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Rumex fascicularis"
unwinged +  and weakly winged +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
dark-brown;brown +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
pyramidal +, compressed-3-gonous +  and 3-gonous +
1.8mm;2.5mm +
yellow +  and brownish yellow +
ovate +  and elongate +
acuminate;acute;acute +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
leafy +  and regular +
not articulated +
subcordate +, truncate +, cordate +, truncate-cuneate +  and rounded +
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 +
0-100 m +
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 +
Swamps, marshes, wet meadows, shores of lakes and rivers +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
always distinctly wider and longer +
rounded-triangular +  and orbiculate +
4mm +  and 5mm +
nonmembranous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
ovate-elliptic +  and ovate +
coriaceous +  and fleshy +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
erose +  and entire +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
entire +, orbiculate +  and linear +
smaller +
narrower +
swollen +
partly +  and foliaceous +
deciduous +  and persistent +
cylindric +
membranous +
anatropous +, , +  and orthotropous +
accrescent +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
spreading;erect +
red;pinkish;red;pinkish;green +
campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
Flowering spring–early summer. +
(2-)3(-4)-carpellate +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
slender;stout +
not scapose +
decumbent +  and procumbent +
decumbent +  and ascending +
papillose-pubescent +  and glabrous +
1/3 +  and 1/2 +
plumose +  and fimbriate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
distinct +
reflexed;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Rumex verticillatus subsp. fascicularis +
Rumex fascicularis +
Rumex sect. Axillares +
species +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
rugose +  and punctate +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +