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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rumex crassus
|accepted_authority=Rechinger f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|place=40: 295. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|common_names=Fleshy willow dock
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Rumex;Rumex subg. Rumex;Rumex sect. Axillares;Rumex crassus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rumex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Rumex subg. Rumex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Rumex sect. Axillares]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rumex crassus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 493
|treatment_page=page 510
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, glabrous, with vertical rootstock. <b>Stems</b> procumbent, occasionally ascending, usually producing axillary shoots below 1st-order inflorescence or at proximal nodes, 20–50(–60) cm. <b>Leaf</b> blades ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-elliptic, 3–12 × 1–5 cm, usually not more than 2–3.5 times as long as wide, widest near middle or occasionally in proximal 1/2, thick, coriaceous, base broadly cuneate, occasionally almost truncate or cuneate, margins entire, flat, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, terminal usually occupying distal 1/3–1/2 of stem, dense or interrupted only near base, usually broadly paniculate (branches simple or nearly so). <b>Pedicels</b> articulated in proximal 1/3 or almost near base, usually rather thick, 4–9 mm, not more than 2–2.5 times as long as inner tepals, articulation distinctly swollen. <b>Flowers</b> 10–25 in whorls; inner tepals broadly ovate, ovate, or lingulate-deltoid, (3–)4–5 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, base rounded or subtruncate, margins entire or indistinctly erose, apex acute or subacute; tubercle 1, large, subequal to inner tepals, or slightly narrower than inner tepals (then free margins of inner tepal distinctly narrower than tubercle), subglabrous to verrucose. <b>Achenes</b> brown or dark reddish brown, 2–2.5 × 1.7–2.1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, sandy shores and marshes
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
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name=Rumex crassus
|author=
|authority=Rechinger f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, sandy shores and marshes
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication year=1936
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Rumex
|subgenus=Rumex subg. Rumex
|section=Rumex sect. Axillares
|species=Rumex crassus
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