View source for Paronychia chartacea

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|accepted_name=Paronychia chartacea
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=38: 418. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|common_names=Paper nailwort;papery whitlow-wort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Nyachia pulvinata
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|publication_title=Torreya
|publication_place=25: 12. 1925,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia chartacea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paronychia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paronychia chartacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 31
|treatment_page=page 34
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or short-lived perennial, often densely matted; taproot filiform to slender. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to ascending, dichotomously branched, 5–20 cm, often retrorsely pubescent on 1 side. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse to acuminate, fimbriate; blade oblong to triangular-ovate, 1.5–6 × 0.5–1.5 mm, leathery, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous. <b>Cymes</b> terminal, 7–25+-flowered, much-branched and very profusely developed along all branches, 1.5–20 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, occasionally 3- or 4-merous, obconic to short-campanulate, with gradually expanded hypanthium and calyx widening distally, 0.5–0.8 mm, pubescent proximally with straight to hooked hairs; sepals brown-purple, white to greenish at apex, sometimes proximally, veins absent, ± oblong, 0.5–0.7 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish to translucent, 0.1–0.2 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by crest or mucro, hood broadly rounded, mucro rounded-triangular, ca. 0.1 mm, glabrous; staminodes absent or rudimentary; styles 2(–3), ca. 0.3 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid or ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.4–0.5 mm, smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The occasional occurrence of 3- or 4-merous flowers is unique to <i>Paronychia chartacea</i> among North American species of the genus.</p><!--
--><p><i>Paronychia chartacea</i> is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p><!--
--><p>The following key is adapted from L. C. Anderson (1991).</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Caudex (stem base) (1-)1.5-3.5(-4.2) mm; leaf blades 0.5-1.5 mm wide; flower clusters 3-20 mm wide; c peninsular Florida
|[[Paronychia chartacea var. chartacea|Paronychia chartacea var. chartacea]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Caudex (stem base) (0.4-)0.7-1(-1.5) mm; leaf blades 1.2-3 mm wide; flower clusters 1.5-4 mm wide; Florida panhandle
|[[Paronychia chartacea var. minima|Paronychia chartacea var. minima]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paronychia chartacea
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Nyachia pulvinata
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1936
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_58.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia chartacea
}}<!--

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