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|accepted_name=Polycarpon
|accepted_authority=Loefling in C. Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 859 (as Polycarpa), 881, 1360. 1759
|year=1759
}}
|common_names=Manyseed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Polycarpon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polycarpon]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek polys, many, and karpos, fruit, alluding to numerous capsules
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 3, 4, 5, 9
|treatment_page=page 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, branched, terete to finely ridged. <b>Leaves</b> opposite or in whorls of 4, not connate, petiolate; stipules 2 per node, silvery, lanceolate to triangular-ovate, margins entire or irregularly cut, apex acuminate to aristate; blade 1-veined, spatulate or oblanceolate to ovate or elliptic, not succulent, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, dense or lax cymes; bracts paired or absent. <b>Pedicels</b> erect. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium minute, cup-shaped, not abruptly expanded distally; sepals distinct, green, lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, often keeled, 1–2.5 mm, herbaceous, margins white, scarious, apex acute, ± hooded, ± awned; petals often fugacious, 5, white, blade apex emarginate; nectaries between filament bases; stamens 3–5; filaments shortly connate distally around ovary; style 1, obscurely 3-branched, filiform, 0.1–0.3 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 3, linear along adaxial surface of style branches, papillate (30×). <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to spherical, opening by 3 incurved or twisting valves; carpophore present. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 8–15, whitish, ovoid to lenticular or triangular, laterally compressed to angular, papillate or granular, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. <b>x</b> = [7], 8, 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America;South America;Europe (including Mediterranean region);Asia;Africa;Polycarpon tetraphyllum introduced widely;including e North America;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 9 or 15 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>C. Mohr’s (1901) report of <i>Polycarpon</i> alsinifolium (Bivona-Bernardi) de Candolle from Alabama was based on misidentification of <i>P. tetraphyllum </i>subsp.<i> tetraphyllum</i>.</p><!--
--><p>The shape of the sepal apex in <i>Polycarpon</i> is varied, with the herbaceous central portion sometimes prolonged beyond the scarious margins into a brief, narrow hood or awn, suggesting an aristate apex.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=howell1941a
|text=Howell, J. T. 1941. Notes on Polycarpon. Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 80.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepals 1.5-2.5 mm, keeled; stipules 1.8-2.8 mm; leaves in whorls of 4 or opposite
|[[Polycarpon tetraphyllum|Polycarpon tetraphyllum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepals 1-1.5 mm, flat or sometimes barely keeled; stipules 0.4-1.2 mm; leaves opposite, not whorled
|[[Polycarpon depressum|Polycarpon depressum]]
|}
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name=Polycarpon
|author=John W. Thieret;Richard K. Rabeler
|authority=Loefling in C. Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=w North America;South America;Europe (including Mediterranean region);Asia;Africa;Polycarpon tetraphyllum introduced widely;including e North America;Australia.
|reference=howell1941a
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_41.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Polycarpon
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