Taxon:
Rheum rhaponticum auct.
Summary
Comment:
- misapplied to rhubarb
- non Rheum rhaponticum L., a wild species
Verified:
05/15/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 Note: = Rheum ×hybridum Murray
- Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. Note: = Rheum ×hybridum Murray