Rumex floridanus

Meisner in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle

in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 46. 1856.

Common names: Florida dock
IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Rumex verticillatus subsp. floridanus (Meisner) Á. Löve
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 506. Mentioned on page 491, 492, 507, 508.

Plants perennial, glabrous, with vertical rootstock. Stems erect, rarely ascending, especially axillary shoots, usually producing axillary shoots below 1st-order inflorescence, or at proximal nodes, 40–80 (–120) cm. Leaf-blades with lateral-veins forming angle of 40–60° with midvein, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, rarely ovatelanceolate, 7–20 (–30) × 3–5 cm, usually 3–5 (–6) times as long as wide, normally rather fleshy, coriaceous or subcoriaceous when dry, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margins entire, flat, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, terminal usually occupying distal 1/3–1/2 of stem, usually rather dense, interrupted only near base, narrowly to broadly paniculate. Pedicels articulated in proximal part, distinctly thickened distally, 7–15 mm, usually 2.5–3 times as long as inner tepals, articulation distinctly swollen. Flowers 10–20 (–30) in whorls; inner tepals, broadly ovate-deltoid or deltoid, (3.5–) 4–5.5 × 4–6 mm, usually as wide as or wider than long, base truncate, margins entire or, rarely, very indistinctly erose, apex acute or acuminate; tubercles 3, equal or subequal, often verrucose and/or transversely rugose (wrinkled) in proximal part. Achenes brown or dark-brown, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm. 2n = 60.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–early summer.
Habitat: Swamps, marshes, bogs, riverbanks, alluvial woods
Elevation: 0-200 m

Distribution

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Ala., Del., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.J., N.C., S.C.

Discussion

Rumex floridanus is closely related to and sometimes treated as a subspecies of R. verticillatus. Distribution of R. floridanus is not known sufficiently because of frequent confusion with R. verticillatus. Moreover, the name was partly misapplied by W. D. Trelease (1892) to R. chrysocarpus.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Rumex floridanus"
unwinged +  and weakly winged +
dark-brown;brown +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
pyramidal +, compressed-3-gonous +  and 3-gonous +
yellow +  and brownish yellow +
ovate +  and elongate +
acuminate;acute;acuminate;acute +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
Meisner in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle +
leafy +  and regular +
not articulated +
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 +
Florida dock +
Ala. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, N.J. +, N.C. +  and S.C. +
0-200 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, bogs, riverbanks, alluvial woods +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
always distinctly wider and longer +
deltoid +  and ovate-deltoid +
wider than long +, 4mm +  and 6mm +
nonmembranous +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
ovatelanceolate +  and lanceolate +
subcoriaceous +, coriaceous +  and fleshy +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
entire +, orbiculate +  and linear +
smaller +
narrower +
swollen +
partly +  and foliaceous +
deciduous +  and persistent +
cylindric +
membranous +
anatropous +, , +  and orthotropous +
accrescent +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
spreading;erect +
red;pinkish;red;pinkish;green +
campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
Flowering late spring–early summer. +
(2-)3(-4)-carpellate +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
slender;stout +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
not scapose +
decumbent +  and procumbent +
ascending +  and erect +
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. floridanus +
Rumex floridanus +
Rumex sect. Axillares +
species +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
rugose +  and verrucose +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +