Persicaria decipiens: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Genus
- Persicaria
- Species
- Persicaria decipiens
- Scientific Name
- Persicaria decipiens
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Persicaria decipiens
Persicaria decipiens, commonly known as slender knotweed, is a species of flowering plant native to Australia and Asia.
Persicaria decipiens is a trailing plant whose stems grow horizontally at first but become more vertical with time, reaching 30 cm (1 ft) high. Its narrow elliptic to lanceolate (spear-shaped) leaves are 5–12 cm (2–4.5 in) long and 0.5–1.3 cm (0.20–0.51 in) across. The slender pink flower spikes appear from November to June, with a peak in February. Cylindrical in shape, they are not stiff and tend to bend over. The plant tends to die back in winter and regenerate after water.
Persicaria decipiens was among the plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on 5 May 1770 at Botany Bay during the first voyage of Captain James Cook. Prolific Scottish botanist Robert Brown described the species as Polygonum decipiens in his 1810 work Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. It was given its current name by Karen Wilson in 1988 as the broadly defined genus Polygonum was split into smaller genera. Common names include slender knotweed, willow weed and snake root.
P. decipiens is found in water and wet soil. It is found across Africa and the Mediterranean, through southwestern Asia, Malesia and all states of Australia, as well as Norfolk Island, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It has become naturalised in Madagascar.
Likely pollinators of its flowers are insects, including honeybees, native bees, flies, wasps and small butterflies.
Persicaria decipiens is not cultivated but is eaten locally in times of famine in Africa.
...Persicaria decipiens in languages:
- Afrikaans
- duisendknoop
- Afrikaans
- snotterbel
- Arabic
- عشب صفصاف المستنقع
- Chinese
- 苗條虎杖
- Chinese
- 沼柳蓼
- English
- slender knotweed
- English
- swamp willow weed
- English
- Tutunawai
- Estonian
- väike kirburohi
- Hebrew
- בת-ארכובית משונשנת
- Māori
- tutunawai
- Polish
- Rdest mniejszy
- Russian
- Горец иволистный
- Slovene
- mala dresen
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Persicaria acuminata
- Persicaria amphibia
- Persicaria angustifolia
- Persicaria arifolia
- Persicaria assamica
- Persicaria attenuata
- Persicaria barbata
- Persicaria biconvexa
- Persicaria bicornis
- Persicaria borneensis
- Persicaria breviochreata
- Persicaria bungeana
- Persicaria caespitosa
- Persicaria capitata
- Persicaria careyi
- Persicaria cespitosa
- Persicaria cespitosum
- Persicaria chinensis
- Persicaria criopolitana
- Persicaria debilis
- Persicaria decipiens
- Persicaria dichotoma
- Persicaria dissitiflora
- Persicaria elatior
- Persicaria erecto-minor
- Persicaria erectominor
- Persicaria extremiorientalis
- Persicaria ferruginea
- Persicaria filiformis
- Persicaria foliosa
- Persicaria galapagensis
- Persicaria glabra
- Persicaria glacialis
- Persicaria hastatosagittata
- Persicaria hirsuta
- Persicaria hispida
- Persicaria humilis
- Persicaria hydropiper
- Persicaria hydropiperoides
- Persicaria hystricula
- Persicaria japonica
- Persicaria jucunda
- Persicaria kawagoeana
- Persicaria lanigera
- Persicaria lapathifolia
- Persicaria limbata
- Persicaria limicola
- Persicaria longiseta
- Persicaria maackiana
- Persicaria maculosa
- Persicaria madagascariensis
- Persicaria meisneriana
- Persicaria microcephala
- Persicaria minor
- Persicaria mitis
- Persicaria muricata
- Persicaria nakaii
- Persicaria neofiliformis
- Persicaria nepalensis
- Persicaria obtusifolia
- Persicaria odorata
- Persicaria orientalis
- Persicaria paradoxa
- Persicaria pensylvanica
- Persicaria perfoliata
- Persicaria pilosa
- Persicaria pilushanensis
- Persicaria pinetora
- Persicaria pinetorum
- Persicaria poiretii
- Persicaria posumbu
- Persicaria praetermissa
- Persicaria prostrata
- Persicaria pubescens
- Persicaria pulchra
- Persicaria punctata
- Persicaria puritanorum
- Persicaria robustior
- Persicaria rotunda
- Persicaria runcinata
- Persicaria sagittata
- Persicaria segetum
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- Persicaria senticosa
- Persicaria setacea
- Persicaria setosula
- Persicaria sinica
- Persicaria sinuata
- Persicaria stelligera
- Persicaria strigosa
- Persicaria subsessilis
- Persicaria sylvestris
- Persicaria taitoinsularis
- Persicaria taquetii
- Persicaria thunbergii
- Persicaria tinctoria
- Persicaria tomentosa
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