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Rumex vesicarius

Ruby dock, or bladder dock

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Hara

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Plants

Sudan Flora

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Names

Common name

Local name (Sudan)

Family name

Plant group

Ruby dock, or bladder dock

Hara

Polygonaceae

Angiosperms, Caryophyllales

Description

Annual herb, with stout hollow striate erect branched stem. Leaves triangular-arrow-shaped, entire, cordate at the base. Flowers mostly solitary, drooping, in racemes which form panicles 12-30 cm long; pedicels 7-8 mm long, articulate below the middle. Fruiting perianth broad, deeply notched at each end, the valves resembling wings, broad, membranous, pink- red, reticulate, the lateral nerves ending in the continuous nerve which forms the edge of the wing.

Plant type

Wild, Native

Location

Erkowit- Red Sea

Collected by

Ikram Madani

Collection date

Aug-24

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