Stellaria Stellaria, Muhl. ex Willd.

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 : 135

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

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scientific name

Stellaria Stellaria
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14. S. longifolia Muhl. ex Willd. View in CoL , Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 479 (1809).

Creeping perennial; stems 5-25 cm, ascending, branched, quadrangular; angles of upper part of stem, margins o f leaves and under side of midrib rough with small papillae. Leaves 5-40 mm, linear-lanceolate to linear. Inflorescence many-flowered; bracts scarious, often with green midrib. Sepals 2-4 mm, glabrous; petals equalling sepals. Ripe capsule slightly exceeding sepals. C. Europe; Fennoscandia; C. & N. Russia. Au Cz Fe Ge He It No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.

In the opinion of some authors the plants from Europe and Asia are distinct from S. longifolia from North America. They have been called S. diffusa Schlecht. , Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin Mag. 7: 195 (1815), but the characters used for separating them are unreliable.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Stellaria

Loc

Stellaria Stellaria

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

S. longifolia Muhl. ex

Willd. 1809: 479
1809
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