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Leaf bases hastate or sagittate often acute. Inner perianth segments inflated and papery Acetosa
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Prostrate, diffuse or ascending and scrambling perennial herb with tubers. Leaves 3–5 cm long, hastate with spreading auricles. Flowers in a terminal panicle often large and much branched. Perianth valves orbicular, cordate, membranous, reticulate, often reddish, 4–7 mm long. Coast and adjacent plateaus; Cumberland Plain. Waste places. Introd. from S. Africa. Turkey Rhubarb or Rambling Dock Acetosa sagittata