| Rumex acetosa L. | |
| Publ. & Syn. | L., Sp. Pl.: 337 (1753). Neotype (UPS): Sweden: Södermanland, Salem, Wiksberg, leg. B. Jonsell 7110 [typ. cons.] (Jonsell and Nilsson 1996: 131). - Acetosa pratensis Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8: Acetosa no. 1 (1768). Nomen novum for Rumex acetosa L. |
| Notes | The affinity of the alpine and northern plants in Norway and Russia has been discussed. These plants are short-grown, often with short and obtuse-lobed leaves, but with fimbriate ochreas. They are known from the Fennoscandian mountains north to the arctic coast and in the Arctic in European Russia at least in Kolguev, Vaigach, and Novaya Zemlya. Some features are shared with subsp. islandicus but Nilsson (2000) did not accept them as part of that race. Tolmachev (1966b) mapped those from Kolguev and Novaya Zemlya (but not those from Vaigach) as subsp. lapponicus (R. lapponicus). Sekretareva (2004) accepted only subsp. lapponicus as native in the Arctic in European Russia. |
| Chromosomes | 40 (4x). - Canada. - At least five reports. |
| Geography | European - Asian. |
| Parent taxon | Rumex L. |
| Child taxa |
Rumex acetosa subsp. acetosa Rumex acetosa subsp. islandicus (Á. Löve) Ö. Nilsson |
| PAF ID | 410714 |