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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stellaria longipes
|accepted_authority=Goldie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh Philos. J.
|place=6: 327. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|common_names=Long-stalked starwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine longipes
|authority=(Goldie) Coville
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Stellaria;Stellaria longipes
|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>[[Stellaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Stellaria longipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 97, 99, 100, 109, 112, 113
|treatment_page=page 108
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, forming small to large clumps or mats, or diffuse, from slender rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> erect to straggling, branched or not, 4-angled, 3–32 cm, glabrous or softly pubescent, angles not minutely papillate-scabrid. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade green, frequently glaucous, 1–3-veined, midrib prominent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, widest at base, 0.4–2.6(–4) cm × 1–4 mm, strongly coriaceous or not, base round, margins entire, convex, glabrous or ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, not spinescent, shiny, smooth, glabrous or sparingly villous, base usually glabrous, rarely with few cilia. <b>Inflorescences</b> with flowers solitary, or terminal, 3–30-flowered (rarely more) cymes; bracts lanceolate, 2–10 mm, herbaceous with scarious margins, or scarious throughout, glabrous or ciliate. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to erect, straight, 5–30 mm, glabrous or softly pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> 5–10 mm diam.; sepals 5, 3-veined, midrib prominent, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–5 mm, margins convex, narrow, scarious, sometimes ciliate, apex acute, glabrous or pubescent; petals 5, 3–8 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as sepals; stamens 5–10; styles 3(–6), ascending, curled at tip, ca. 1.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> blackish purple or straw colored, ovoid to ovoid-lanceoloid, 4–6 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as sepals, apex broadly acute, opening by 6 valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform to globose, 0.6–0.9 mm diam., shallowly tuberculate to smooth. <b>2n</b> = 52–104, (107).</span><!--

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|distribution=Circumpolar.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chinnappa1974a
|text=Chinnappa, C. C. and J. K. Morton. 1974. The cytology of Stellaria longipes. Canad. J. Genet. Cytol. 16: 499–514.
}}
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules purplish black; stems variable, commonly compact, erect; leaf blades very variable, from linear-lanceolate to ovate-triangular
|[[Stellaria longipes subsp. longipes|Stellaria longipes subsp. longipes]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Capsules straw colored; stems elongate, straggling; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate
|[[Stellaria longipes subsp. arenicola|Stellaria longipes subsp. arenicola]]
|}
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name=Stellaria longipes
|author=
|authority=Goldie
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsine longipes
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=Circumpolar.
|reference=chinnappa1974a
|publication title=Edinburgh Philos. J.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Stellaria
|species=Stellaria longipes
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