Editing Rumex (section)

==Fossil record==
Several [[fossil]] fruits of ''Rumex'' sp. have been described from [[middle Miocene]] [[strata]] of the Fasterholt area near [[Silkeborg]] in Central [[Jutland]], [[Denmark]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) |first=Else Marie |last=Friis |author-link=Else Marie Friis |journal=The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |volume=24 |issue=3 |year=1985}}</ref>
{{clear}} One [[fossil]] fruit of a ''Rumex'' species has been extracted from a [[borehole]] sample of the [[Middle Miocene]] fresh water deposits in [[Nowy Sacz]] Basin, [[West Carpathians]], [[Poland]]. This fossil fruit is similar to the fruits of the extant species ''[[Rumex maritimus]]'' and ''Rumex ucranicus'' which both have [[fossil]] records from the [[Pliocene]] and [[Pleistocene]] of [[Europe]].<ref>Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) by Maria Łańcucka-Środoniowa, Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.</ref>