View source for Paronychia patula

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paronychia patula
|accepted_authority=Shinners
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=1: 102. 1962
|year=1962
}}
|common_names=Pineland nailwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Siphonychia diffusa
|authority=Chapman
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication_place=47. 1860,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia patula
|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 patula]]</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>annual or rarely short-lived perennial; taproot filiform to slender. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, much-branched, 5–50 cm, retrorsely pubescent throughout. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate, 1.5–7 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 3–20 × 0.5–3 mm, herbaceous, apex obtuse to subacute, sparsely antrorsely pubescent. <b>Cymes</b> terminal and lateral, 15–50+-flowered, densely congested, ± spheroid clusters 3–5 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, cylindric, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx constricted then widening distally, 1.2–2.2 mm, pubescent, sometimes only slightly so, mostly proximally with straight or usually hooked hairs; sepals red-brown, white distally, midrib and lateral pair of veins becoming prominent, linear to oblong, 0.6–1.2 mm, papery, margins white, 0.03–0.1 mm wide, papery, apex terminated by mucro, hood obscure, narrowly rounded, mucro short-conic, 0.05–0.1 mm, glabrous; staminodes triangular, 0.2–0.4 mm; style 1, cleft (2- or 3-lobed) in distal 1/5, 0.5–1.3 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid to subglobose, 0.4–0.6 mm, ± smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandhills, woodlands, fields, clearings, roadsides
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.
|discussion=<p>The Louisiana record of <i>Paronychia patula</i>, based on a specimen at NY, is questionable.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia patula
|authority=Shinners
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Siphonychia diffusa
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandhills, woodlands, fields, clearings, roadsides
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1962
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_78.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia patula
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