Arenaria longipedunculata

Hultén

Bot. Not. 119: 313, fig. 1. 1966.

Common names: Longstem sandwort
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 54. Mentioned on page 52, 53.

Plants perennial, tufted to mat-forming. Taproots filiform; rhizomes slender, 0.5–3 cm. Stems 25–60+, erect to ascending, green, 2–4 cm; internodes terete, 1–4 times as long as leaves, shiny, minutely glandular-villous. Leaves briefly connate basally, with herbaceous sheath 0.1–0.3 mm, sessile; blade obscurely 1-veined, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate or ovate, 2–6 × 1–1.5 mm, subsucculent, margins thickened, herbaceous, shiny, ciliate proximally, apex acute to apiculate, pustulate, glabrous; axillary leaf clusters absent. Inflorescences terminal, solitary flowers. Pedicels erect in fruit, 10–20 mm, densely glandular-villous. Flowers: sepals green, obscurely veined, not keeled, ovate (herbaceous portion ovate), 3.5–4 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex acute to acuminate, not pustulate, minutely stipitate-glandular proximally; petals broadly elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm, 11/4–11/2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded. Capsules tightly enclosed by calyx, ellipsoid, 4–5 mm, 1–11/5 times as long as sepals. Seeds 13–20, brown, reniform, compressed, 0.7–0.9 mm, shiny, rugulose (30×). 2n = 40, 80.


Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Gravelly, moist, montane areas, open alpine woods
Elevation: 50-1000 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., N.W.T., Yukon, Alaska, Asia.

Discussion

Arenaria longipedunculata was for many years included in A. humifusa.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Ronald L. Hartman +, Richard K. Rabeler +  and Frederick H. Utech +
Hultén +
Longstem sandwort +
Alta. +, B.C. +, N.W.T. +, Yukon +, Alaska +  and Asia. +
50-1000 m +
Gravelly, moist, montane areas, open alpine woods +
Flowering spring–summer. +
Spergulastrum +
Arenaria longipedunculata +
Arenaria +
species +