View source for Cardionema ramosissimum

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|accepted_name=Cardionema ramosissimum
|accepted_authority=(Weinmann) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=56: 473. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Loeflingia ramosissima
|authority=Weinmann
|publication_title=Flora
|publication_place=3: 608. 1820 (as Loefflingia).
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Cardionema;Cardionema ramosissimum
|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>[[Cardionema]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cardionema ramosissimum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 46
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>often forming dense mats, 5–30+ cm, often obscured by stipules and dense pubescence. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 1–8 mm, often nearly as long as leaves, lobes acuminate; blade 2-grooved, 5–13 mm, apex finely spinose, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> densely woolly, hairs 0.5–1.5 mm; sepals 5, margins fimbriate, awn 1.5–4 mm; staminodes white, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Utricles</b>: apex apiculate. <b>Seeds</b> 1.4–1.6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy beaches, grassy bluffs, sand dunes
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico;South America (Chile;Ecuador;Peru).
|discussion=<p>The flowers are burlike in fruit with the utricle enclosed in the rigid, persistent calyx, the presumed unit of seed dispersal.</p>
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name=Cardionema ramosissimum
|author=
|authority=(Weinmann) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Loeflingia ramosissima
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy beaches, grassy bluffs, sand dunes
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico;South America (Chile;Ecuador;Peru).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1913
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Cardionema
|species=Cardionema ramosissimum
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