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|accepted_name=Velezia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 332. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 155. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Velezia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Velezia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Cristóbal Velez, ca. 1710–1753, a friend of the botanist Pehr Loefling
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 4, 6
|treatment_page=page 166
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Taproots</b> slender. <b>Stems</b> simple or branched, terete. <b>Leaves</b> connate proximally by line of tissue or sheath, sessile; blade 3-veined, linear to subulate, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, flowers generally solitary; bracts foliaceous; involucel bracteoles absent. <b>Pedicels</b> erect. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 11–15 mm; tube green, 15-veined, narrowly cylindric, terete, commissures between sepals absent, lobes green or reddish, 3-veined proximally, lanceolate-acuminate, shorter than tube, margins silvery, scarious, apex acute; petals 5, pink or purple, clawed, auricles absent, corona of 6–8, linear to lanceolate segments, blade apex entire or notched; nectaries at filament bases; stamens 5; filaments distinct; staminodes absent; ovary 1-locular; styles 2, 9–10 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2, linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30×). <b>Capsules</b> narrowly cylindric, opening by 4 ascending teeth; carpophore present. <b>Seeds</b> 6–8, black, ovate-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, finely papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo central, straight. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);sw;c Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Velezia
|author=Ronald L. Hartman;Richard K. Rabeler
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);sw;c Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|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/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_339.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Velezia
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