Polygonaceae  

1 Rumex nervosus : Aathrab Arabic Name Mach branched, dioecious or monoecious shrub up to c. 2 m tall. Leaves long-petioled lower down to subsessile or almost sessile in the upper parts, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, tapering into the petiole at base and acute point at apex lamina basally 3-nerved, up to 8 cm x 2 cm. Flowers unisexual, arranged in axillary and terminal panicles, the male and female flowers on the same panicle or on even separate bushes Male flowers with 9 stamens. Female flowers with the innter fruiting perianth-segment, different shades of red to orange to straw-colored, orbicular to reniform, reticulate veined, membranous with small basal warts. The colour of ripening and mature fruits gives an ornamental appearance to the bushes.