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Rheum webbianum is a species of herbaceous perennial rhubarb-relative in the family Polygonaceae from the southwestern Himalayan region, known in (Indian) English as Indian rhubarb, Gilgiti rhubarb or small Himalayan rhubarb.
This species is present in Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa), India (Kashmir, Uttarakhand), western Nepal and southwest Tibet.
Like Rheum australe, the roots of this species are harvested from the wild to make the drug Indian rhubarb; this was formerly an important drug in Western medicine, and is still used in Unani medicine.
Himalayan Rhubarb · Rheum lhasaense · Rheum maximowiczii · Sikkim Rhubarb · Chinese rhubarb · Rheum palaestinum · Chinese rhubarb · Rhubarb · False Rhubarb · Syrian Rhubarb · Rhubarb
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rheum webbianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
