View source for Velezia ← Velezia 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=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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);sw;c Asia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: 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://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_339.xml |subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae |genus=Velezia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]] 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 Velezia.