Rumex kerneri

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5. Rumex kerneri Borbás (syn.: R. cristatus DC. subsp. kerneri (Borbás) Akeroyd et D.A. Webb) (SE-Eur.) – An exceptional alien but possibly overlooked. A small but apparently well-established population was discovered in 2011 in a grassy bank between a railway track and the Kennedylaan in the port area of Gent (Verloove 2013). See http://alienplantsbelgium.be/content/rumex-kerneri-belgium-towards-criti... additional information.

Herbarium specimen

Rumex kerneri, Gent, port area, grassy border by railway track, May 2011, F. Verloove Rumex kerneri, Gent, port area, grassy border by railway track, May 2011, F. Verloove
Rumex kerneri, Gent, port area, grassy border by railway track, May 2011, F. Verloove Rumex kerneri, Gent, port area, grassy border by railway track, May 2011, F. Verloove
Rumex kerneri Rumex kerneri, Gent, port area, Kennedylaan, grassy railway bank, September 2012, R. Barendse

Selected references:

Verloove F. (2013) Verder onderzoek binnen het genus Rumex (Polygonaceae) in België. Dumortiera 102: 3-9. [available online at: http://www.br.fgov.be/DUMORTIERA/DUM_102/Dum_102_3-9_Rumex_Verloove.pdf]

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Rumex kerneri (Species List)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith