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|accepted_name=Frankenia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 331. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 154. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Frankeniaceae;Frankenia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Frankeniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Frankenia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Johann Frankenius, 1590 – 1661, Swedish botanist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 410
|treatment_page=page 409
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Branches </b>articulated, often swollen at nodes, usually differentiated into long and short shoots, hairs simple. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate or sessile, salt crystals usually present on leaf surfaces, sometimes forming solid crust, short-shoot leaves in axillary fascicles; petiole sometimes inconspicuous, narrow to broad distally, margins usually ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: floral bracts leaflike, usually connate basally into verticels of 4, clasping calyx base (rarely adnate to calyx base). <b>Flowers</b>: calyx tube cylindric [campanulate], strongly rounded-ribbed; 4–6[–7]-lobed, petals white, pink, violet, or blue-purple, oblong-oblanceolate to spatulate, claw linear, broadening slightly at apex, to narrowly cuneate, limb apex truncate or rounded, erose-denticulate to sinuous, glabrous; anthers yellow or red to yellowish pink to purplish red; ovary with [1–]2–60[–100] ovules, funiculi ascending and bearing erect ovules or deflexed and bearing pendulous ovules, usually free, infrequently adnate to carpel wall for part of their lengths. <b>Seeds</b> ivory to golden brown, ovoid-conic or elongate-ovoid to oblong- or ovoid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid. <b>x</b> = 5.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Australia;introduced in West Indies.
|discussion=<p><i>Frankenia</i> species vary in the degree of revoluteness of the leaf margins. This is most easily determined on fresh or softened material; loosely revolute margins will often tend to become somewhat more revolute on drying but can still be distinguished from tightly revolute margins that are not readily unrolled.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 70 (5 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=whalen1987a
|text=Whalen, M. A. 1987. Systematics of Frankenia (Frankeniaceae) in North and South America. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 17: 1–93.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades subterete, margins tightly revolute, abaxial surface mostly concealed
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|At least some leaf blades flat, margins slightly to loosely revolute, abaxial surface mostly exposed
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Styles (2–)3(–4)-branched; petioles sometimes absent, 0.1–1.5 mm, apex ± similar in width to base of blade.
|[[Frankenia jamesii|Frankenia jamesii]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Styles 2(–3)-branched; petioles (0.2–)0.3–1 mm, apex abruptly and markedly wider than base of blade.
|[[Frankenia palmeri|Frankenia palmeri]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Herbs, annual; petals 2.5–5.2 mm; seeds 0.4–0.7 mm.
|[[Frankenia pulverulenta|Frankenia pulverulenta]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Subshrubs, or shrubs, perennial; petals 5.5–11.5 mm; seeds 0.8–3.1 mm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Branches hairy, hairs appressed; petiole subcylindric and narrow distally, tapering markedly toward blade; seeds 2–3.1 mm.
|[[Frankenia johnstonii|Frankenia johnstonii]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Branches glabrous or puberulous or short-pilose, hairs erect or suberect; petioles not markedly tapering toward blade; seeds 0.8–1.5 mm.
|[[Frankenia salina|Frankenia salina]]
|}
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name=Frankenia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Frankeniaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Australia;introduced in West Indies.
|reference=whalen1987a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_776.xml
|genus=Frankenia
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