Taxon:
Rheum rhaponticum auct.
Summary
Comment:
- misapplied to rhubarb
- non Rheum rhaponticum L., a wild species
Verified:
05/15/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 Note: = R. ×hybridum Murray
- Stace, C. New flora of the British Isles. 1995 Note: = R. ×hybridum Murray