| Accepted name: |
Persicaria orientalis (L.) Spach |
| Synonym(s): |
-Polygonum orientale L.
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| English names: |
Prince's-plume Knotweed
Prince's Feather
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| French names: |
Renouée orientale
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Polygonales
Family: Polygonaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HPEROR
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
- |
| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Occasionally cultivated in SE Asia for its sour-tasting young shoots and fruits. In Vietnam a folk medicine against snake bites(1). |
| Key Characters: |
- |
