Code
POLSF
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Marshland
Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia
synonym | Persicaria salicifolia (Brouss. ex Willd.) A. H. Munshi & G. N. Javeid |
synonym | Persicaria serrulata (Lag.) M. A. Hassan |
synonym | Persicaria serrulata (Lag.) Webb & Moq. |
synonym | Polygonum azoricum H. C. Wats. ex Meisn. |
synonym | Polygonum ciliatum Ehrenb. ex Meisn. |
synonym | Polygonum donii Meisn. |
synonym | Polygonum erythropus Dammer |
synonym | Polygonum flaccidum Roxb. |
synonym | Polygonum glabrum Roxb. ( |
synonym | Polygonum hydropiper Lour. |
synonym | Polygonum leuconeuron Peter |
synonym | Polygonum macrochaetum Miq. |
synonym | Polygonum minus Tenore |
synonym | Polygonum pseudohydropiper Salzm. ex Ball |
synonym | Polygonum rapte Herb. Ham. ex Hook. fil. |
synonym | Polygonum rubicundum Soland. ex Meisn. |
synonym | Polygonum salicifolium Brouss. ex Willd. |
synonym | Polygonum salicifolium var. serrulatum (Lag.) Maire & Weiller |
synonym | Polygonum scabrum Poir. |
synonym | Polygonum serratuloides var. pseudohydropiper (Salzm. ex Meisn.) H. Lindb. |
synonym | Polygonum serrulatoides H. Lindb. |
synonym | Polygonum serrulatum Lag. |
synonym | Polygonum serrulatum var. angustifolium Peter |
synonym | Polygonum serrulatum var. salicifolium (Willd.) Ball |
synonym | Polygonum strictum Meisn. |
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Global description
Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia is an herbaceous plant, glabrous or nearly so, upright, semi-decumbent or spreading. It is about 1 m tall. The leaves are simple, alternate, sessile or almost linear, lanceolate, pointed, with smooth margin, glabrous or almost hairless. The ochrea is finished with long silks. The inflorescence is slender, consisting of several spike-like racemes bearing small, sparse, pink or white flowers. The fruit is a trigonal achene 2 mm long.
General habit
An erect or semi-decombant annual herb, sometimes spreading, which measures 90 cm to 1 m in height.
Underground system
The root is a taproot.
Stem
The stem is slender, smooth, cylindrical, marked by a succession of swollen nodes.
Leaf
The leaves are simple and alternate. The leaf is sessile to sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, rather abruptly shrunken into a short petiole, pointed at the apex. It is 7.5 to 15 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. The blade is glabrous and smooth on both sides, sometimes slightly pubescent along the midrib and margin, that is entire. The ochrea, at the base of the petiole, is pubescent and long ciliated at the apex.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is slender and loose consisting of a small number of spike-like racemes, 6-9 cm long, with sparse flowers. The racemes are borne by a hairless peduncle. The bracts are strongly hairy
Flower
The flower is sessile, pink and white consisting of a perianth with 5 rounded tepals, no gland, 6 to 8 stamens and usually 3 styles.
Fruit
The fruit is a trigonal achene with a pointed tip 2 mm long (shorter than the perianth), brown in color.
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Benin : Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia flowers and fructifies from February to August.
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Plant that grows at the edges of streams and lakes, marshy places. It is found in lowland rice paddies.
Madagascar: Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia is common along streams, in moist forests and on forest edges, up to 1200 m altitude.
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Worldwide distribution
Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia is a common species in Asutral and Tropical Africa. It is introduced and naturalised in Madagascar.
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Local harmfulness
Benin: Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia is rare and scanty in paddy fields.
Ghana: rare but abundant when it is present.
Mali: rare and scanty.
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Polygonum salicifolium : https://www.gbif.org/species/5334422
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- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1954. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain. Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Institut international d'agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Cavaco A., 1953. 65ème famille - Polygonacées. In Humbert H. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. Paris.
- Akoégninou, A., W. J. van der Burg and L. G. van der Maesen (2006). Flore analytique du Bénin. Cotonou, Bénin, Wageningen, Pays-Bas, Backhuis Publishers.
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1954. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain. Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Institut international d'agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Cavaco A., 1953. 65ème famille - Polygonacées. In Humbert H. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. Paris.
- Akoégninou, A., W. J. van der Burg and L. G. van der Maesen (2006). Flore analytique du Bénin. Cotonou, Bénin, Wageningen, Pays-Bas, Backhuis Publishers.
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Polygonum%2520salicifolium
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Polygonales |
Family | Polygonaceae |
Genus | Persicaria |
Species | Persicaria salicifolia subsp. salicifolia |