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|accepted_name=Polycarpaea
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Hist. Nat.
|place=2: 3, 5, plate 25. 1792
|year=1792
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Polycarpaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polycarpaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek poly-, numerous, and karpos, fruit, alluding to the numerous capsules
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 5, 9
|treatment_page=page 23
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>[small shrubs], annual [perennial]. <b>Taproots</b> slender to stout. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, terete. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, sometimes appearing whorled, not connate, short-petiolate (basal leaves) or sessile (cauline leaves); stipules 2 per node, white, lanceolate, margins entire, apex hairlike; blade 1-veined, oblong-ovate to suborbiculate (basal leaves), subulate to linear (cauline leaves), not succulent, apex acute or hairlike. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, compact to loose cymes; bracts paired, scarious. <b>Pedicels</b> erect or spreading. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium cup-shaped, not abruptly expanded distally; sepals distinct, silvery with brown midrib, ovate to lanceolate, not keeled, 2.2–3.1 mm, scarious, margins scarious, apex acute; petals 5, pink, blade apex irregularly toothed or entire; nectaries between filament bases; stamens 5; filaments distinct; style 1, filiform, minute, less than 0.1 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 3, subcapitate, smooth to obscurely papillate (50×). <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, opening by 3 recurved valves; carpophore present. <b>Seeds</b> 5–8, tan, translucent, pyriform, not compressed, rugulose, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;tropics and subtropics;chiefly Old World.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bakker1957a
|text=Bakker, K. 1957. Revision of the genus Polycarpaea (Caryoph.) in Malaysia. Acta Bot. Neerl. 6: 48–53.
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|id=gagnepain1908a
|text=Gagnepain, F. 1908. Contribution à la connaissance du genre Polycarpaea Lamk. J. Bot. (Morot), sér. 2, 1: 275–280.
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|id=lakela1962a
|text=Lakela, O. 1962. Occurrence of species of Polycarpaea Lam. (Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Rhodora 64: 179–182.
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|id=lakela1963a
|text=Lakela, O. 1963. Annotation of North American Polycarpaea. Rhodora 65: 35–44.
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|id=sundaramoorthy1988a
|text=Sundaramoorthy, S. and D. N. Sen. 1988. Ecology of Indian arid zone weeds. XI. Polycarpaea corymbosa (Linn.) Lamk. Geobios (Jodhpur) 15: 235–237.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Polycarpaea
|author=John W. Thieret;Richard K. Rabeler
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Fla.;tropics and subtropics;chiefly Old World.
|introduced=true
|reference=bakker1957a;gagnepain1908a;lakela1962a;lakela1963a;sundaramoorthy1988a
|publication title=J. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1792
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Polycarpaea
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