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Persicaria nepalensis

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

(Meissner) Miyabe

Common Names

• Tani-soba (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• China
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Kenya
• Korea
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Khabarovsk
• Kuril Islands
• Primorye
• Sakhalin - Russia
• Rwanda
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tadzhikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Ditches
• marsh
• montane woodland
• disturbed forest
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Japan)

Fruiting Times

Sometimes climbing glabrous annual herb with hairy stems. Leaves to 50mm x 30mm with winged petiole. Terminal and axillary pseudo-spikes with bracts, white flowers to 3mm long, black achenes to 2mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• USNH
• FNWNG
• FOTA
• FOJ
• FONG