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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Minuartia macrocarpa
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Ostenfeld
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Meddel. Grønland
|place=37: 226. 1920
|year=1920
}}
|common_names=Long-pod stitchwort;large-fruited sandwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Arenaria macrocarpa
|authority=Pursh
|publication_title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication_place=1: 318. 1813
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsinopsis macrocarpa
|authority=(Pursh) A. Heller
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wierzbickia macrocarpa
|authority=(Pursh) Reichenbach
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Minuartia;Minuartia macrocarpa
|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 macrocarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 116, 118, 119, 120, 128
|treatment_page=page 127
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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> erect to ascending, green, 3–10 cm, glabrous or sometimes stipitate-glandular, internodes of flowering stems 1–5 times as long as leaves. <b>Leaves</b> tightly overlapping (vegetative), variably spaced (cauline), usually connate proximally, with tight, scarious to herbaceous sheath 1–1.5 mm; blade straight to outwardly curved, green, flat, 3-veined, often prominently so abaxially, linear to oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 4–14 × 0.5–2 mm, flexuous, margins thickened, ± coriaceous, ciliate, often densely so, apex green, rounded, navicular, shiny, glabrous or essentially so throughout or abaxially, sometimes pubescent adaxially, hairs resembling cilia; axillary leaves present among vegetative leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, terminal; bracts linear, herbaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.4–1 cm, usually densely stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cup-shaped; sepals prominently 3-veined proximally, lanceolate to oblong (herbaceous portion often purple, lanceolate to oblong), 4.5–6 mm, to 9 mm in fruit, apex often purple, rounded, hooded, stipitate-glandular; petals broadly obovate, 1.2–1.6 times as long as sepals, apex blunt or rounded, entire. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ellipsoid, 10–18 mm, longer than sepals. <b>Seeds</b> red-brown to brown, orbiculate with radicle prominent and notch filled with papillae, somewhat compressed, 1–1.1 mm (excluding papillae), rounded-tuberculate, ringed with longitudinal, cylindrical, tan papillae 0.5–0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 44 (Russia), 46, 48 (Russia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky, montane ridges, sandy slopes, well-drained alpine tundra and heathlands
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Japan;Russian Far East;Siberia).
|discussion=<p>An amphi-Beringian species, Minaurtia macrocarpa is easily distinguished by having the largest capsules of any North American <i>Minuartia</i>.</p>
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name=Minuartia macrocarpa
|author=
|authority=(Pursh) Ostenfeld
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Alsinopsis macrocarpa;Wierzbickia macrocarpa
|basionyms=Arenaria macrocarpa
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky, montane ridges, sandy slopes, well-drained alpine tundra and heathlands
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.W.T.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Japan;Russian Far East;Siberia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Meddel. Grønland
|publication year=1920
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_260.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Minuartia
|species=Minuartia macrocarpa
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