View source for Phemeranthus mengesii

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|accepted_name=Phemeranthus mengesii
|accepted_authority=(W. Wolf) Kiger
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=11: 320. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Talinum mengesii
|authority=W. Wolf
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Portulacaceae;Phemeranthus;Phemeranthus mengesii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Portulacaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phemeranthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Phemeranthus mengesii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 490, 491
|treatment_page=page 493
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 4 dm; roots elongate, fleshily woody. <b>Stems</b> ± erect, usually branching. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade terete, to 7 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, much overtopping leaves; peduncle scapelike, to 20 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals deciduous, ovate, 3–4 mm; petals pink to rose-purple, obovate, 9–15 mm; stamens (40–)50–100; stigma 1, subcapitate. <b>Capsules</b> subglobose, sometimes trigonous, 3–4 mm. <b>Seeds</b> without arcuate ridges, 0.8–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Woods, glades, barrens, cliffs, outcrops, rocky banks, sandstone, granite, gneiss, rarely limestone
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Most populations of Phemeranthus mengesii are diploid but a few scattered in western Georgia are tetraploid, probably the result of autopolyploidy (W. H. Murdy and M. E. B. Carter 2001).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=carter1986a
|text=Carter, M. E. B. and W. H. Murdy. 1986. Divergence for sexual and asexual reproductive characters in Talinum mengesii (Portulacaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 113: 259–267.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=montgomery1969a
|text=Montgomery, F. and D. Blake. 1969. Talinum mengesii Wolf from a new physiographic province. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 96: 719.
}}
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name=Phemeranthus mengesii
|author=
|authority=(W. Wolf) Kiger
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Talinum mengesii
|family=Portulacaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Oct.
|habitat=Woods, glades, barrens, cliffs, outcrops, rocky banks, sandstone, granite, gneiss, rarely limestone
|elevation=100-1000 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=carter1986a;montgomery1969a
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Phemeranthus
|species=Phemeranthus mengesii
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