Polygonaceae (knotweed, smartweed, or buckwheat family) »
Fagopyrum cymosum (Trevir.) Meisn.
fag-oh-PY-rum -- Greek:
fagus (beech) and
pyros (wheat); referring to the beechnut like fruit of buckwheat ...
Dave's Botanary
sy-MOH-sum -- furnished with cymes (flower clusters) ...
Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: golden buckwheat, perennial buckwheat, tall buckwheat •
Hindi: बन ओगल ban ogal •
Nepali: बन फापर ban phappar
Distribution: 1500-3400 m; Himalaya (Pakistan, India, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, China), Myanmar, Vietnam
References:
Flowers of India •
NPGS / GRIN •
Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal
