Spergularia macrotheca var. macrotheca
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 18.
Plants 5–35 cm. Stems erect to prostrate. Leaves: stipules 5–11 mm; blade (0.6–) 1–4 cm. Flowers: sepal lobes ovate to lanceolate, (4.5–) 5–7 mm, to 8 mm in fruit; petals pink to rosy, 0.9–1.1 times as long as sepals; styles 0.6–1.2 mm. Capsules 0.8–1.2 times as long as calyx. Seeds redbrown, often with submarginal groove or depression, suborbiculate to ovate, (0.6–) 0.7–0.8 mm, smooth (40×); wing absent or 0.1–0.2 mm wide. 2n = 36, 72.
Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Salt flats and marshes, dunes, rocky outcrops, sandy or rocky coastal bluffs, gravelly ridges, alkaline fields
Elevation: less than 300 m
Distribution
B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash., Mexico (Baja California)
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"-1.2timesaslongascalyx" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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blunt;rounded +
absent +
spongy +
distinct +
absent +
clawed +
whorled +
arising +
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1-veined +
fleshy +
foliaceous +
paired +
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ovoid +
absent +
branched +
woody +
absent +
dish--shaped +
curved +
peripheral +
annular +
absent +
opposite +
distinct +
sessile +
symmetric +
axillary +
Salt flats and marshes, dunes, rocky outcrops, sandy or rocky coastal bluffs, gravelly ridges, alkaline fields +
simple +
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dish or cupshaped +
expanded +
sessile +
distinct +
axillary +
absent +
3-veined +
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low +
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reflexed;erect +
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straight +
central +
surrounding +
annular +
fugacious +
0.9-1.1 times as long as sepals +
absent +
absent +
Alph. Aufz. Gew. +
1846 +
arising +
absent +
circular;angular +
redbrown +
[40 +
membranous +
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connate +
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16;19 +
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Spergularia macrotheca var. macrotheca +
Spergularia macrotheca +
variety +
tuberous +
recurved +
divided +
indehiscent +
entire +
spreading +
perennial +
horizontal +
absent +
0.1-0.2 mm +
wide +