Rumex usambarensis (Engl. ex Dammer) Dammer

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Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

Rumex usambarensis

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road between Kaperekeza turn-off and Thazima Gate, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms: Rumex maderensis sensu J.G. Baker & C.H. Wright non Lowe
Rumex nervosus Vahl var. usambarensis Engl. ex Dammer
Rumex trinervius Rech. f.
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
A straggling, sometimes climbing shrub with stems up to 3 m or more tall. Leaves often clustered, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 3.5-9 cm long, hastate at the base and narrowed above the basal lobes, distinctly 3-veined, hairless; petiole 1-4 cm long. Ocrea 1-1.5 cm long, membranous, entire,falling early. Flowers arranged in 2-6-flowered whorls on pedicels 2-5 mm long; whorls together forming leafless terminal panicles. Outer perianth segments brownish; inner segments red to reddish-brown; stamens 6. Fruit 2-2.5 mm long, trigonous,shiny brown.
Notes: This species is not listed in Burrows & Willis, 2005 (SABONET Report no. 31)
Derivation of specific name: usambarensis: of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Habitat: In moist shady places in high rainfall grassland, sometimes along roadsides and in disturbed ground.
Altitude range: 800 - 2215 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
Malawi distribution: N
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Tuesday 28 August 2018
Literature:

Nogueira, I., Ortiz, S. & Paiva, J.A.R. (2006). Polygonaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Page 42.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Rumex usambarensis
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Rumex usambarensis.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=165660, retrieved 19 March 2024

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