View source for Okenia ← Okenia 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=Okenia |accepted_authority=Schlechtendal & Chamisso |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Linnaea |place=5: 92. 1830 |year=1830 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Okenia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Okenia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Lorenz Oken, 1779–1851, German naturalist |volume=Volume 4 |mention_page=page 16 |treatment_page=page 39 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, viscid-pubescent, from long, narrow taproots. <b>Stems</b> trailing, unarmed, without glutinous bands on internodes. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate, of unequal size in each pair; blade thin to somewhat fleshy, base ± asymmetric. <b>Inflorescences</b> in axils of smaller leaf of pair, 1-flowered, peduncles short in flower, peduncles greatly elongating, pushing into ground in fruit; bracts deciduous, 3 at base of flower, distinct, lanceolate, thin, translucent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, chasmogamous; perianth radially symmetric, funnelform but strongly oblique, constricted beyond ovary, gradually flared to 5-lobed limb; stamens 5–18, included or slightly exserted; styles slightly exserted; stigmas peltate. <b>Fruit</b> geocarpous, ± oblong, unribbed, corky, glabrate, smooth or rugose.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=s North America. |discussion=<p>Species 1 or 2 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Okenia |author=Richard W. Spellenberg |authority=Schlechtendal & Chamisso |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Nyctaginaceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=s North America. |reference=None |publication title=Linnaea |publication year=1830 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_72.xml |genus=Okenia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Nyctaginaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Nyctaginaceae (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 Okenia.