Rumex palustris
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Rumex palustris or Marsh Dock is a plant species of the genus Rumex
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The species was mentioned by Leonard Plukenet
, based on a collection made by Isaac Rand
. The authority of the accepted description, Rumex palustris, was James Edward Smith
Rumex
The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae....
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The species was mentioned by Leonard Plukenet
Leonard Plukenet
Leonard Plukenet was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary. Plukenet published Phytographia in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books...
, based on a collection made by Isaac Rand
Isaac Rand
Isaac Rand was an English botanist and apothecary, who was a lecturer and director at the Chelsea Physic Garden.-Life:Isaac was probably son of James Rand, who in 1674 agreed, with thirteen other members of the Society of Apothecaries, to build a wall round the Chelsea Botanical Garden...
. The authority of the accepted description, Rumex palustris, was James Edward Smith
James Edward Smith
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...