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Stellaria ruscifolia
CapsuleDescription '''FNA:''' olive green, ovoid, 4-6 mm, equaling and enclosed in sepals, opening by 6(-8) valves; carpophore absent.  +
Common name is Prickly-leaved Starwort  +
Documentation requested false  +
Family Caryophyllaceae +
FlowerDescription '''FNA:''' 10-13 mm diam.; sepals 5, 3-vei'''FNA:''' 10-13 mm diam.; sepals 5, 3-veined, lanceolate, 4.5-6 mm, margins narrow, scarious, apex acute, glabrous or sparsely pilose; petals 5, 5-7 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as sepals, blade apex with lobes oblanceolate; stamens 10, in 2 whorls; styles 3(-4), ascending and outwardly curved, 2 mm.-4), ascending and outwardly curved, 2 mm.  +
Genus Stellaria +
InflorescenceDescription '''FNA:''' flowers solitary, subterminal in axils of foliage leaves, or terminal, 2-5-flowered cymes; bracts (when present) lanceolate, distally reduced, 3-14 mm, herbaceous, margins scarious, apex acuminate.  +
LeafDescription '''FNA:''' sessile; blade ovate to broadly lanceolate, widest below middle, 0.4-2 cm × 2-6 mm, coriaceous, base round, margins entire, apex acuminate, '''spinous''', glabrous.  +
Occurrence is Reported  +
Origination status is Native +
PedicelDescription '''FNA:''' stiffly erect, 5-40 mm, glabrous.  +
PlantDescription '''FNA:''' perennial, forming small to moderate clumps, from elongate rhizomes.  +
Scientific name is Stellaria ruscifolia  +
SeedDescription '''FNA:''' brown, reniform-rotund, 0.8-1.2 mm, rugose.  +
SpecificEpithet ruscifolia  +
StemDescription '''FNA:''' erect, branched, 4-angled, 3-20 cm, glabrous.  +
Summary Included in the preliminary checklist as well as Hall's 2010, the FNA treatment for this species shows Southeast Alaska included in the distribution of this species. However, there are no collections in ARCTOS of this species from Southeast Alaska.  +
TaxonRank species  +
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Categories Vascular Plant  + , Species  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 23 April 2016 18:15:35  +
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