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|accepted_name=Paronychia maccartii
|accepted_authority=Correll
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=18: 307. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=McCart’s nailwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia maccartii
|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 maccartii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 31
|treatment_page=page 40
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; taproot ± stout. <b>Stems</b> sprawling, branched from base, 3–10 cm, puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm, apex narrowly acuminate, entire; blade linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2–10 × 0.7–1.5 mm, leathery, apex spinose, minutely puberulent. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 10–20-flowered, congested, in clusters 0.5–1.5 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, extended-urceolate, with enlarged hypanthial bulge and calyx cylindric to slightly tapering distally, 3.5-4 mm, moderately pubescent proximally, with minute, hooked hairs on hypanthial bulge, sparsely pubescent on calyx, densely so with hooked to coiled hairs on hood; sepals green to red-purple, midrib apparent, oblong, 1.9–2.1 mm, herbaceous to leathery, margins white, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by awn, hood triangular-rounded, awn erect, becoming widely divergent, white, ± lanceoloid from proximal constriction, 0.8–1.3 mm, slightly scarious, distinct spine absent; staminodes narrowly subulate, 0.6–0.8 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 7/8, 0.7–0.8 mm. <b>Utricles</b> unknown.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dense red sands
|elevation=200-300 m
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Paronychia maccartii</i> is still known only from the type collection in Webb County.</p>
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name=Paronychia maccartii
|author=
|authority=Correll
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Dense red sands
|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_76.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia maccartii
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