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Rheum palmatum

Scientific Name
Rheum palmatum
Family Name
Polygonaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Nanas kerang (Indonesia)
Description
A large, erect, perennial herb, up to 2.5m tall; rhizome and roots thick, branched,almost fleshy, bright yellow. Leaves partly in a radical rosette, partly spirally arrangedon an erect stem; leaves of rosette borne on a thick, subcylindrical petiole, up to 30cmlong, blade orbicular, 50-90cm x 50-70cm, base cordate, deeply palmately lobed, 3-5veined, lobes ovate-oblong or lanceolate, apex acute, entire, dentate or pinnatifid,upper surface normally rough; ocrea large, membranaceous. Inflorescence a loose,hairy panicle with recemiform branches, foliated to the tip. Flowers bisexual,fascicled; tepals in 2 whorls of 3, mostly red, sometimes pink or whitish, little or notaccrescent after anthesis; stamens 9; ovary trygynous, styles 3, recurved, stigmas thick.Fruit a trigonous nutlet, 10mm x8mm, brown, much longer than perianth, 3-winged,scarious. (Indonesia)
Uses
Bronchitis, whooping cough, tuberculosis, epistaxis, dysentery, sprains, contusions(Indonesia)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Petak pamer
Remarks
Rheum palmatum (GRIN)

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