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|accepted_name=Moenchia
|accepted_authority=Ehrhart
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|place=5: 203. 1783
|year=1783
}}
|common_names=Upright chickweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Moenchia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Moenchia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Conrad Moench, 1744–1805, professor at Marburg, Germany
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 6, 8
|treatment_page=page 93
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="taproot size"><b>Taproots </b>slender.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem shape"><b>Stems </b>ascending to erect, simple or sometimes branched proximally, terete.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="cauline leaf fusion;cauline leaf architecture;cauline leaf architecture"><b>Leaves:</b> cauline leaves connate proximally, sessile or sometimes petiolate (basal leaves);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade architecture;blade shape;blade texture;apex shape">blade 1-veined, linear to linear-oblanceolate, not succulent, apex acute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence position or structure subtype;inflorescence architecture;cyme orientation;cyme architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower orientation;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal, 1–3-flowered, spreading cymes or flowers solitary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower bract arrangement;flower bract architecture;margin texture">bracts paired, foliaceous, those of axillary flowers with scarious margins.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="pedicel orientation"><b>Pedicels </b>erect.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="perianth position;androecium position"><b>Flowers:</b> perianth and androecium hypogynous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal fusion;sepal coloration;sepal shape;sepal some measurement;sepal growth form or texture;margin coloration;margin coloration;margin texture;apex shape">sepals 4, distinct, green, lanceolate, 3.8–7 mm, herbaceous, margins white or silvery, scarious, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal quantity;petal presence;petal coloration;claw presence;blade apex architecture or shape">petals 4 or rarely absent, white, claw absent, blade apex entire;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="filament arrangement;sepal arrangement">nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 4, inserted at base of ovary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="filament fusion">filaments distinct nearly to base;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="staminode presence">staminodes absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="style quantity;style shape;style some measurement;style pubescence">styles 4, filiform, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="stigma quantity;stigma arrangement or course or shape;stigma relief;stigma quantity">stigmas 4, linear along adaxial surface of styles, minutely papillate (50×).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule height or length or size;tooth quantity;tooth shape or vernation;sepal variability"><b>Capsules </b>cylindric, opening by 8 revolute teeth, shorter than or equaling sepals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="carpophore presence">carpophore absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape;seed relief;abaxial groove depth;marginal wing presence"><b>Seeds </b>35–55, brown, reniform with deep abaxial groove, laterally compressed, papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="appendage presence;x chromosome quantity">x = 19.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);in Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ketzner1996a
|text=Ketzner, D. M. 1996. Crepis pulchra (Asteraceae) and Moenchia erecta (Caryophyllaceae) in Illinois. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 89: 21–23.
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|id=rabeler1991a
|text=Rabeler, R. K. 1991. Moenchia erecta (Caryophyllaceae) in eastern North America. Castanea 56: 150–151.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Moenchia
|author=Richard K. Rabeler;Ronald L. Hartman
|authority=Ehrhart
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);in Africa (Republic of South Africa);Australia
|introduced=true
|reference=ketzner1996a;rabeler1991a
|publication title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|publication year=1783
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Moenchia
|abaxial groove depth=deep
|androecium position=hypogynous
|apex shape=acute;acute
|appendage presence=absent
|blade apex architecture or shape=entire
|blade architecture=1-veined
|blade shape=linear;linear-oblanceolate
|blade texture=not succulent
|capsule height or length or size=shorter
|capsule shape=cylindric
|carpophore presence=absent
|cauline leaf architecture=petiolate;sessile
|cauline leaf fusion=connate
|claw presence=absent
|cyme architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|cyme orientation=spreading
|filament arrangement=opposite
|filament fusion=distinct
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower bract architecture=foliaceous
|flower bract arrangement=paired
|flower orientation=spreading
|inflorescence architecture=1-3-flowered
|inflorescence position or structure subtype=terminal
|margin coloration=silvery;white
|margin texture=scarious;scarious
|marginal wing presence=absent
|pedicel orientation=erect
|perianth position=hypogynous
|petal coloration=white
|petal presence=absent
|petal quantity=4
|seed coloration=brown
|seed quantity=35;55
|seed relief=papillate
|seed shape=compressed;reniform
|sepal arrangement=opposite
|sepal coloration=green
|sepal fusion=distinct
|sepal growth form or texture=herbaceous
|sepal quantity=4
|sepal shape=lanceolate
|sepal some measurement=3.8mm;7mm
|sepal variability=equaling
|stamen quantity=4
|staminode presence=absent
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|stem orientation=ascending;erect
|stem shape=terete
|stigma arrangement or course or shape=linear
|stigma quantity=[50;4
|stigma relief=papillate
|style pubescence=glabrous
|style quantity=4
|style shape=filiform
|style some measurement=0.7mm;1mm
|taproot size=slender
|tooth quantity=8
|tooth shape or vernation=revolute
|whole_organism duration=annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=19
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