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|accepted_name=Paronychia franciscana
|accepted_authority=Eastwood
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=28: 288. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|common_names=San Francisco nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia franciscana
|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 franciscana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 38
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, mat-forming; caudex branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, usually much-branched throughout, 5–50 cm, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 3–6 mm, apex narrowly acute to long-acuminate, entire; blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ± fleshy, apex spinulous, entire, ± moderately antrorsely appressed-pubescent. <b>Cymes</b> axillary, inconspicuous, 2–6-flowered, tightly congested. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, short-cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx cylindric to slightly tapering distally, 1.9–2.4 mm, glabrous, sepals puberulent distally; sepals greenish, becoming reddish brown, midrib and lateral pair of veins often apparent, oblong to ovate, 1.2–1.3 mm, herbaceous, margins translucent, ca. 0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood broadly rounded, awn erect, 0.5–0.7 mm, conic in proximal 1/6 with whitish, smooth spine; staminodes absent; styles 2, 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ± globose to 4-angled, 1.2–1.3 mm, papillate distally.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Grassy hills
|elevation=20-300 m
|distribution=Calif.;South America (Chile).
|discussion=<p>Although <i>Paronychia franciscana</i> was described from California, where it has been known from the San Francisco area since 1887, the species is native in Chile.</p>
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name=Paronychia franciscana
|author=
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Grassy hills
|elevation=20-300 m
|distribution=Calif.;South America (Chile).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1901
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_71.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia franciscana
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