Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : rumpu
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Polygonaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: fiddle dock
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Schöner Ampfer ; ES : acedera ; FR : rumex élégant ; IT : romice cavolaccio ; PT : labaça-sinuada ; EN : fiddle dock ;
Biological type: Perennial with rhizomes
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.
- Height: 20-60 cm. Plant glabrous or pubescent.
- Stem erect, flexuous, with numerous, stiff, spreading and forward-directed branches.
- Lower leaves in rosette ; blade obtuse at apex, obcordate at base, cut margins, panduriform. Cauline leaves relatively small, ovate and acute. Ochreas present.
- Flowers greenish, in few-flowered whorls, all spreading, in long lax and slightly leafy racemes ; short pedicels, jointed near the base.
- Fruit with fruiting valves reticulate, ovate-deltoid, with an oblong wart, stiff lanceolate teeth on margins.
- Plant of which root is slightly astringent, diuretic and aperitive.
- Biological type: perennial with rhizomes.
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