Rumex vesicarius, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 85

20. R. vesicarius L. , Sp. Pl. 336 (1753) .

Glaucous annual. Leaves triangular-hastate. Pedicels solitary in the axils of the small ochreae, usually bearing 2 flowers, a primary and a secondary. Valves of the primary flowers 12-18(-23) mm long and wide, membranous, finely and densely reticulate, 2 valves of each flower with tubercles, all with margins bent outwards so as to hide the tubercles and also the smaller secondary flower. Nut of primary flowers 3-5-4-7(-5-2) mm, greyish-brown; of secondary flower 2-8-4(-4- 5) mm, somewhat darker. Once recorded from S. E. Greece (near Navplion).?Gr. (N. Africa, S. W. Asia.)