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|accepted_name=Herniaria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 218. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 103. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Rupturewort;herniary;herniaire
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Herniaria
|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>[[Herniaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin hernia, rupture, and -aria, pertaining to, alluding to use in treatment of hernias
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 5, 29, 31
|treatment_page=page 43
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, biennial, or perennial. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> ascending or spreading to often prostrate, much-branched from base, mat-forming, terete. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, or distalmost alternate (from reduction of 1 member of a pair), connate by a line of tissue between adjacent stipules, sessile or virtually so; stipules 2 per node, inconspicuous, white, ovate to deltate, margins ciliate, apex acute; blade 1-veined, oblanceolate to elliptic or suborbiculate, not succulent, apex acute to rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> densely clustered cymes usually on short lateral branches opposite a leaf; bracts paired, resembling stipules, smaller. <b>Pedicels</b>: flowers sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cup-shaped, not abruptly expanded distally; sepals 5, distinct, greenish to whitish green, lanceolate to oblong, 0.5–1.5 mm, herbaceous, margins green, herbaceous, apex acute to subobtuse, not hooded, not awned; nectaries near inner surface of filament bases; stamens (2–)4–5; filaments distinct; staminodes 5, arising from hypanthium rim, subulate-filiform, inconspicuous; styles 2, connate in proximal 1/3, filiform, 0.1–0.4 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2, linear along adaxial surfaces of style branches, papillate (100×). <b>Utricles</b> at least partly enclosed by hypanthium, opening irregularly. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown or black, ovoid to lenticular, slightly laterally compressed, shiny, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral, curved. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=South America (Andes);Europe;c;w Asia;Africa;introduced elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 45 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=akeroyd1993a
|text=Akeroyd, J. R. 1993. Herniaria. In: T. G. Tutin et al., eds. 1993+. Flora Europaea, ed. 2. 1+ vol. Cambridge and New York. Vol. 1, pp. 182–184.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=hermann1937a
|text=Hermann, F. 1937. Übersicht über die Herniaria-Arten des Berliner Herbars. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 203–224.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=williams1896b
|text=Williams, F. N. 1896. A revision of the genus Herniaria. Bull. Herb. Boissier 4: 556–570.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers glabrous or minutely ciliate; leaf blades glabrous or sometimes minutely ciliate; plants green, glabrous or pubescent
|[[Herniaria glabra|Herniaria glabra]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers densely pubescent; leaf blades hirsute or ciliate; plants gray-green, densely pubescent
|[[Herniaria hirsuta|Herniaria hirsuta]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Herniaria
|author=John W. Thieret;Ronald L. Hartman;Richard K. Rabeler
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=South America (Andes);Europe;c;w Asia;Africa;introduced elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=akeroyd1993a;hermann1937a;williams1896b
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_85.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Herniaria
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