Fagopyrum sect. Fagopyrum, Min & Shi & Dehshiri & Gou & Li & Zhang & Zhou & Li, 2023

Min, Daozhang, Shi, Wei, Dehshiri, Mohammad Mehdi, Gou, Yuting, Li, Wei, Zhang, Kaixuan, Zhou, Meiliang & Li, Bo, 2023, The molecular phylogenetic position of Harpagocarpus (Polygonaceae) sheds new light on the infrageneric classification of Fagopyrum, PhytoKeys 220, pp. 109-126 : 109

Fagopyrum sect. Fagopyrum

Type.

Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. (≡ Polygonum fagopyrum L.).

Diagnosis.

This section is characterised by having large corymbose inflorescences with many branches and dense flowers and large achenes greatly exceeding the persistent perianth.

Species.

F. dibotrys , F. esculentum subsp. esculentum , F. esculentum subsp. ancestrale , F. homotropicum and F. tataricum .

Distribution.

Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam of southern and south-eastern Asia and southern and south-western China.