Acetosa Mill.

Leaf bases hastate or sagittate often acute. Inner perianth segments inflated and papery Acetosa

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Prostrate, diffuse or ascending and scrambling perennial herb with tubers. Leaves 3–5 cm long, hastate with spreading auricles. Flowers in a terminal panicle often large and much branched. Perianth valves orbicular, cordate, membranous, reticulate, often reddish, 4–7 mm long. Coast and adjacent plateaus; Cumberland Plain. Waste places. Introd. from S. Africa. Turkey Rhubarb or Rambling Dock Acetosa sagittata

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Erect annual herb with fibrous roots. Leaves 5–10 cm long, triangular with a cordate to truncate base. Petiole longer than lamina on basal leaves. Flowers in clusters of 2 or 3 on a simple pedicel. Perianth valves 12–23 mm long; tinged pink to purple; emarginated at both ends. Occasionally naturalized. Introd. from N. Africa to Pakistan. Bladder Dock or Rosy Dock Acetosa vesicaria