Rumex hastatus D.Don

 
  • Family : POLYGONACEAE
    (Buckwheat Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Acetosa hastiformis Á.Löve & B.M.Kapoor; Rumex dissectus H.Lév.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Rumex hastatus D.Don
  • Common name : Arrowleaf Dock, Yellow Sock, Curled sock
  • Vernacular name :
    • Churki, churka (Hindi)
    • Khatti Buti (Urdu)
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Grows on dry slopes, rocks, rocky fissures and walls; 600 - 3200 m. altitude. Stony slopes, banks, common on walls of cultivated terraces; in Nepal in drier areas only
  • Key identification features : A rather bushy plant with many ascending stems, with narrow arrow shaped leaves with a pair of narrow spreading basal lobes, and with numerous thin branches with terminal very slender clusters of distant whorls of tiny greenish-white flowers. Flowers very small, flower-stalk lengthening in fruit. Leaves mostly 2-4 cm, some broadly triangular, stalked; stems woody at base, 20-60 cm. Fruit pinkish, wings papery and delicately net-veined, to 5 mm across.
  • Flower, Fruit : April-June.July.August
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Dehradun district,Nainital district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Native : Afghanistan, China South-Central, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Afghanistan to South Central China and North-West India
  • Literature :
    • Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 1204
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 209
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 317
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Rumex hastatus. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.

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