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Rumex acetosa L. Rumex acetosella L. Rumex confertus Willd. Rumex conglomeratus Murray Rumex crispus L. Rumex tuberosus L. Polygonaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Rumex acetosa L.: Acetosa agrestis Raf.; Acetosa amplexicaulis Raf.; Acetosa angustata Raf.; Acetosa bidentula Raf.; Acetosa fontanopaludosa (Kalela) Holub; Acetosa hastifolia Schur; Acetosa magna Gilib.; Acetosa officinalis Gueldenst. ex Ledeb.; Acetosa subalpina Schur; Rumex biformis Lange; Rumex fontanopaludosus Kalela

Rumex acetosella L.: Acetosa acetosella Mill.; Acetosa arvensis Montandon; Acetosa hastata Moench; Acetosa repens Gray; Acetosa sterilis Mill.; Acetosella vulgaris (W. D. J. Koch) Fourr.; Rumex tenuifolius (Wallr.) A. Löve

Rumex confertus Willd.: Rumex alpinus var. subcalligerus Boiss.

Rumex conglomeratus Murray: Acetosa conglomerata (Murray) M. Gómez; Rumex nemolapathum Ehrh.; Rumex paludosus With.; Rumex acutus Sm.

Rumex crispus L.: Lapathum crispum (L.) Scop.; Rumex odontocarpus Sandor ex Borbás

Rumex tuberosus L.: Acetosa tuberosa (L.) Chaz.; Rumex euxinus Klokov

Local Names

Armenia: Rumex acetosa: (aveluk sovorakan), Rumex acetosella: (aveluk...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba Mehdiyeva & Valida Alizade

  3. Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  5. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  6. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2016). Rumex acetosa L. Rumex acetosella L. Rumex confertus Willd. Rumex conglomeratus Murray Rumex crispus L. Rumex tuberosus L. Polygonaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_131-1

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