View source for Myosoton ← Myosoton You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Myosoton |accepted_authority=Moench |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Methodus, |place=225. 1794 |year=1794 }} |common_names=Giant or water chickweed;stellaire aquatique |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Myosoton |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myosoton]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek myos, mouse, and otos, ear, alluding to leaves |volume=Volume 5 |mention_page=page 4, 7, 96, 97 |treatment_page=page 95 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Taproots</b> slender, rhizomes slender. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to ascending, simple or branched, terete to angular. <b>Leaves</b> sessile leaves clasping proximally, petiolate (proximal leaves) or sessile (most cauline leaves); blade 1-veined, ovate to broadly elliptic, not succulent, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, open cymes; bracts paired, foliaceous, smaller. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to erect, reflexed in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, occasionally pistillate or reduced and sterile; perianth and androecium weakly perigynous; hypanthium minimal; sepals 5, distinct, green, ovate, 4–6(–9) mm, herbaceous, margins green or white, herbaceous or scarious, apex acute, not hooded; petals 5, white, claw absent, blade apex deeply 2-fid; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals; stamens 10, occasionally fewer, arising from nectariferous disc at ovary base; filaments distinct; staminodes sometimes present, linear; styles 5(–6), distinct, filiform, 0.7–1.8 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 5(–6), linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30×). <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to globose-ovoid, opening by 5(–6), slightly recurved, briefly 2-fid valves; carpophore absent. <b>Seeds</b> 50–100, brown-blackish, reniform, laterally compressed, papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe;temperate Asia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p>The combination of 5(–6) styles and a capsule opening by the same number of briefly 2-fid valves characterizes <i>Myosoton</i> and is not known in <i>Stellaria</i>. Most chromosome counts of <i>M. aquaticum</i> are 2n = 28, a very rare number in <i>Stellaria</i>.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Myosoton |author=Richard K. Rabeler |authority=Moench |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Caryophyllaceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=Europe;temperate Asia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Methodus, |publication year=1794 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_200.xml |subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae |genus=Myosoton }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Caryophyllaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Myosoton.