Polygonaceae Juss.
Rumex L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 333 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 156 [secondary reference]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 421 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 31 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]
common name: Docks [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 412 [secondary reference]
common name: Docks [n/a]
Small, J.K. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Polygonaceae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 653 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Rumex patientia L.
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 172 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin for the Sorrel; probably from the shape of the leaf, rumex meaning also a dart or javelin."
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 280 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin for the Sorrel; probably from the shape of the leaf, rumex meaning also a dart or javelin."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 156 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 103 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 583-584 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 152-153 [secondary reference]
Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 152-154 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 280 [secondary reference]
Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Polygonaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 32 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 177 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Polygonaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 84-87 [secondary reference]
Rechinger, K.H. (24 October 1984), Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Australia: a reconsideration. Nuytsia 5(1): 75-122 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 115 [secondary reference]
Moore, J. & Scott, J.K. (1987), The distribution of introduced Rumex (Polygonaceae) in Western Australia. Kingia 1: 21-26 [secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 288-291 [secondary reference]
common name: Docks [n/a]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 14 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acetosa Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acetosella (Meisn.) Fourr. legitimate
Brandbyge, J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 541 [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Polygonaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 129-130 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 102 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 286-287 [secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 288-289 [secondary reference]
common name: Docks [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 804 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Rumex sect. Platypodium Willk. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bucephalophora Pau legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI (naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 753-754 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acetosa Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acetosella (Meisn.) Fourr. legitimate
Schuster, T.M., Reveal, J.L., Bayly, M.J. & Kron, K.A. (2015), An updated molecular phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): Relationships of Oxygonum, Pteroxygonum, and Rumex, and a new circumscription of Koenigia. Taxon 64(6): 1203 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Acetosa Mill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Emex Neck. ex Campd. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Rumex sect. Acetosa (Mill.) Campd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rumex subg. Atecosa Raf. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Rumex subg. Acetosa (Mill.) Raf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rumex sect. Acetosella Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rumex sect. Platypodium Willk. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Acetosella (Meisn.) Fourr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bucephalophora Pau legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rumex subg. Acetosa (Mill.) Rech.f. isonym taxonomic synonym: Rumex subg. Acetosella (Meisn.) Rech.f. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI (naturalised)