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|accepted_name=Honckenya
|accepted_authority=Ehrhart
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|place=5: 206. 1783
|year=1783
}}
|common_names=Seaside sandwort;sea purslane
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Adenarium
|authority=Rafinesque
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ammonalia
|authority=Desvaux
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Halianthus
|authority=Fries
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Honckenya
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Honckenya]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Gerhard August Honckeny, 1724–1805, German botanist
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 7, 139
|treatment_page=page 137
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, forming large mats or clumps by leafy rhizomes; rhizomes fleshy, often with prominent nodal buds and small membranous leaves. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to decumbent, flowering stems ascending or weakly erect, simple or branched, terete or weakly 4-angled. <b>Leaves</b> not basally connate, sessile; blade 1-veined or obscurely so, usually elliptic to ovate, less commonly lanceolate to oblanceolate, obovate, or broadly elliptic, succulent, apex acute to acuminate or apiculate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, open, leafy, 1–6-flowered cymes or axillary and flowers solitary; bracts paired, foliaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> erect. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual or, occasionally, staminate plants also with some bisexual; perianth and androecium subperigynous; hypanthium minimal; sepals 5(–6), distinct, green, narrowly ovate to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, herbaceous, margins pale, scarious, apex obtuse or acute to apiculate, not hooded; petals absent or 5(–6), white, base clawed, blade apex emarginate; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals enlarged on both sides of filament, slightly reduced in pistillate flowers; stamens 10, fertile in staminate flowers, fewer or abortive in pistillate flowers, arising from rim of very brief hypanthium disc; filaments distinct; staminodes absent; styles (2–)3–5(–6), filiform, 1–2 mm, shorter and erect in staminate flowers, glabrous proximally; stigmas (2–)3–5(–6), linear along adaxial surface of styles, minutely papillate (30×). <b>Capsules</b> globose, inflated, opening by 3 spreading valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> 3–15, reddish brown to dark reddish or yellowish brown, narrowly to broadly obovate, laterally compressed, smooth to minutely papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Temperate and arctic North America;n Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p>The resemblance in habit between Honckenya and Wilhelmsia previously presumed to represent convergence has proven to indicate a close relationship based on recent molecular studies (M. Nepokroeff et al., unpubl.).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Honckenya
|author=Warren L. Wagner
|authority=Ehrhart
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Adenarium;Ammonalia;Halianthus
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=Temperate and arctic North America;n Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Neues Mag. Aerzte
|publication year=1783
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_282.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Honckenya
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