View source for Minuartia decumbens

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|accepted_name=Minuartia decumbens
|accepted_authority=T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=33: 162, fig. 1. 1981
|year=1981
}}
|common_names=Lassicus stitchwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia decumbens
|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 decumbens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 119, 129, 130, 133, 134
|treatment_page=page 124
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming. <b>Taproots</b> stout, woody. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect, green, 4–15 cm, trailing stems to 30 cm, glabrous, internodes of flowering stems ca. as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> overlapping proximally, all evenly spaced, connate proximally, with tight, scarious sheath 0.5–0.7 mm; blade arcuate, green, flat, 3-veined, needlelike to subulate, 3–6(–9) × 0.7–2 mm, ± rigid, margins scarious proximally, apex green, blunt to ± acute, dull, glabrous; axillary leaves present among vegetative leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–20-flowered, open cymes; bracts narrowly lanceolate, herbaceous, thinly scarious-margined. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–2.5 cm, sparsely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium dish-shaped; sepals (1- or) 3-veined, narrowly lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate), 5–6 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex often purple, acute to acuminate, not hooded, sparsely stipitate-glandular; petals broadly linear to oblong-elliptic, 0.7–0.9 times as long as sepals, apex rounded, entire to slightly emarginate. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, 4–4.8 mm, shorter than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> purplish brown, elliptic-oblong, ± compressed, 1.8–2.2 mm, tuberculate; tubercles low, rounded.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Jeffrey pine woodlands, serpentine soils
|elevation=1200-1500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Minuartia decumbens</i>, like <i>M. rosei</i> and <i>M. stolonifera</i>, is restricted to serpentine soils of northwestern California, specifically to Mule Ridge in Trinity County. The three species are most closely related to the polymorphic <i>M. nuttallii</i>.</p>
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name=Minuartia decumbens
|author=
|authority=T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Jeffrey pine woodlands, serpentine soils
|elevation=1200-1500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1981
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_251.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia decumbens
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