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(First upload on December 8 2003. Last on October 21 2022) [ 日本語 | English ]

Rumex acetosella L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Rumex L. (スイバ)
Hime-suiba (ヒメスイバ, 姫酢葉, s.l.), sheep sorrel, or red sorrel
Lifeform: weedy perennial forb
Distribution: Native to Europe (extotic to Japan)
Habitat: ruderal grasslands

flora on Mount Koma, Mount Usu

Shoot: dioecious / vegetative reproduction by stolons
Seed dispersal: gravity → seedbank
Chromosome number: 2n = 14, 28, 41, 42 or 43
Synonyms:

Rumex acetosella L.ssp.pyrenaicus (Pourret ex Lapeyr.) Akeroyd (s.s.)
Acetosella angiocarpa (Murb.) A. Love
Rumex angiocarpus auct. non Murb.

ssp. pyrenaicus (Pourret ex Lapeyr.) Akeroyd (ヒメスイバ, s.s.)
ssp. acetosella (ヒナスイバ), the type, gymnocarpous, widespread in Europe (reported only from Miyagi in the case of Japan)
索引

Rumex acetosella in Hokkaido


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[1] along a paved road on N24/E1, East Ward, Sapporo, on April 21 2020. [2/3] on a roadside at the foot of Abuta Shrine (虻田神社) on June 6 2013. [4] on the trail near the parking lot on Mount Koma. On July 9 2009. [5/6] at the backyard of the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido Univeristy, on May 19 2016. [7] on the southern part of crater basin on Mount Usu on July 5 2022. The seeds of this species was detected from the former topsoil (Tsuyuzaki 1989, 2010).

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