Arenaria humifusa, Wahlenb.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 120

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FF66-FF64-CE25-FB0C4D51CFA4

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scientific name

Arenaria humifusa
status

 

20. A. humifusa Wahlenb. View in CoL , El. Lapp. 129 (1812).

Small, matforming perennial up to 3 cm, with procumbent, glabrous stems and slender, elongate stolons at or just above ground-level. Leaves 3-4 x 1 -1- 75 mm, elliptical to narrowly obovate, glabrous or very slightly cibate at the base. Flowers solitary or rarely two together; pedicels much shorter than or equalling sepals, slightly scabrid. Sepals 3-4 mm, ovate, usually glabrous, obscurely 3-veined, with narrow scarious margin; petals slightly exceeding sepals; anthers pale purple. Capsule exserted, cylindrical. Seeds 0-7-0- 75 mm, reddish-brown. 2« = 40. Moist, open habitats on basic soil in mountains. Arctic Europe and subarctic Norway (very rare). No Rs (N) Sb Su. (Arctic and montane North America.)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Arenaria

Loc

Arenaria humifusa

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964
1964
Loc

A. humifusa

Wahlenb. 1812: 129
1812
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