Species Rumex dregei
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There aren’t any identifications of Rumex dregei.
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Etymology of Rumex:
The Latin name for culinary sorrel, as used by Pliny the Elder, probably derived from rumo = to suck or I suck; alluding to the practice among Romans of sucking the leaves to allay thirst.
Etymology of dregei:
Commemorates the brothers Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) of Huguenot ancestry. Prodigious botanists and plant collectors in the Cape.’
Scientific name:
Rumex dregei Meisn.
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Protologue:
Prodr. (DC.) 14: 68 (1856)
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Year published:
1856
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Rumex dregei.