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|accepted_name=Minuartia tenella
|accepted_authority=(J. Gay) Mattfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=57(Beibl. 126): 29. 1921
|year=1921
}}
|common_names=Slender stitchwort;slender sandwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Greniera tenella
|authority=J. Gay
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis tenella
|authority=(J. Gay) A. Heller
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria macra
|authority=A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria stricta
|authority=Michaux
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria stricta subsp. macra
|authority=(A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride) Maguire
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria stricta var. puberulenta
|authority=(M. Peck) C. L. Hitchcock
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia tenella
|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>[[Minuartia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Minuartia tenella]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 118, 124
|treatment_page=page 135
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Taproots</b> filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect, green, 5–25 cm, stipitate-glandular distally or throughout, internodes of stems 2–5 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally, often connate basally, with loose, scarious sheath 0.2–0.5 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, green, flat to concave, prominently 1-veined abaxially, narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 5–17 × 0.5–1.5 mm, flexuous, margins not thickened, often scarious, sometimes ciliate or stipitate-glandular, apex purple, apiculate, navicular, shiny to dull, glabrous or stipitate-glandular; axillary leaves often present. <b>Inflorescences</b> 7–25+-flowered, open cymes; bracts subulate to lanceolate, scarious. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–1.5 cm, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium disc-shaped; sepals prominently 3-veined, ovate to narrowly so (herbaceous portion narrowly ovate to lanceolate), 2.5–3 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex green to purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, densely stipitate-glandular; petals obovate, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> on stipe ca. 0.1 mm, ovoid, 3–4 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> brown, suborbiculate with radicle prolonged to rounded beak, somewhat compressed, 0.4–0.6 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded, elongate. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs and forest openings
|elevation=0-700 m
|distribution=B.C.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Although B. Maguire (1951, 1958) included <i>Minuartia tenella</i> within his concept of <i>Arenaria</i> stricta (<i>M. michauxii</i>), we see little more than a superficial resemblance between the taxa as we circumscribe them.</p>
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name=Minuartia tenella
|author=
|authority=(J. Gay) Mattfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis tenella;Arenaria macra;Arenaria stricta;Arenaria stricta subsp. macra;Arenaria stricta var. puberulenta
|basionyms=Greniera tenella
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs and forest openings
|elevation=0-700 m
|distribution=B.C.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1921
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia tenella
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