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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia congesta
|accepted_authority=Correll
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=18: 307. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Rio Grande nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia congesta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paronychia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paronychia congesta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; caudex woody, branched. <b>Stems</b> erect, 6–10 cm, evenly puberulent with spreading hairs. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate, 4–7 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear or needlelike, 4–7 × ca. 0.5 mm, leathery, apex spinulose, puberulous. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 7–28+-flowered, branched, mostly congested in clusters 5–15 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, extended-urecolate, with prominent hypanthial bulge and calyx tapering somewhat distally, 2.8–3.1 mm, moderately pubescent with straight, spreading to appressed hairs generally throughout; sepals green to red-brown, veins absent or midrib and lateral pair of veins evident in fruit, lanceolate to oblong, 1.3–1.5 mm, leathery to rigid, margins translucent, less than 0.05 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood prominent, narrowly rounded, awn widely divergent, 0.5–0.7 mm, broadly conic in proximal 1/2–2/3 with yellowish, ± glabrous spine; staminodes subulate, ca. 0.5 mm; style 1, 2-lobed in distal 1/3–3/5, 0.5–0.7 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ± ovoid, 0.8–0.9 mm, ± smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Thorn scrubland openings
|elevation=200-300 m
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Paronychia congesta</i> is known only from two collections in Jim Hogg County.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia congesta
|author=
|authority=Correll
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Thorn scrubland openings
|elevation=200-300 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1967
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_61.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia congesta
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