Species Rumex ruwenzoriensis
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There aren’t any identifications of Rumex ruwenzoriensis.
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Location unknown
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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 ruwenzoriensis:
From the Ruwenzori mountains on the border of Uganda and the DRC. The highest peak is 5109m. The range supports its own species and varieties of giant groundsel and giant lobelia and even has a 6 metres (20 ft) tall heather covered in moss that lives on one of its peaks.
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Rumex ruwenzoriensis.