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Taxon:  Rheum palmatum L.



Summary
Genus:
Rheum
Family:
Polygonaceae
Subfamily:
Polygonoideae
Tribe:
Rumiceae
Nomen number:
31118
Place of publication:
Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1010. 1759
Verified:
03/10/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rheum palmatum L. var. palmatum

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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Barney, D. L. & K. E. Hummer. 2012. Rhubarb: Botany, horticulture, and genetic resources. Hort. Rev. 4:149, 158, 161, 163, 168.
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  4. Czerepanov, S. K. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). 1995 Note: Cambridge University Press
  5. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  6. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Rheum+palmatum&quantity=1
  8. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  9. Grubov, V. I., ed. Plants of Central Asia: plant collections from China and Mongolia (English translation of Rasteniia Tsentral'noĭ Azii). 1999-
  10. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  11. Kao, T. C. & C. Y. Cheng. 1975. Synopsis of the Chinese Rheum. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 13(3):73. http://www.plantsystematics.com/en/gkll.asp
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  19. Stace, C. New flora of the British Isles. 1995
  20. Sun, Y. et al. 2012. Rapid radiation of Rheum (Polygonaceae) and parallel evolution of morphological traits. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 63:150-158. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10557903
  21. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea, second edition. 1993 Note: mentions
  22. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
Chinese rhubarb –
ornamental rhubarb –
French
rhubarbe palmée –
German
handlappiger Rhabarber –
Medizinalrhabarber –
Portuguese
rabárbarbo –
Spanish
ruibarbo de Levante –
Swedish
flikrabarber –
Transcribed Chinese
da huang –
zhang ye da huang –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Gansu, Hubei, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang (e.), Yunnan]
Cultivated
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part]
Naturalized
Europe
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy
Economic Uses
Environmental
Food additives
flavoring (fide Ency CNatIn) –
Medicines
folklore (fide F Eur ed2; F BritStace; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; F ChinaEng) –


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