DOCK FAMILY
Rumex bucephalophorus(Ēoban dešneši)
(Stierkopf-Ampfer)
Polygonaceae
Annual herbs, often glaucus. Stem up to 30 cm. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, spathulate. Inflorescence raceme or spike-like. Glomeruli 2-3-flowered. Flowers greenish, very small; flower-stalks either slender and short or long and flat. Flowers, pedicels and fruits usually dimorphic. Pedicels filiform, rigidly recurved, flexuous. Perianth segments toothed, enlarging in fruit. Fruit on recurved stalks. Fl. February-May. Fields, dunes.
Mediterranean area, Sinai, Arabia.
