Honckenya
| Honckenya peploides | |
|---|---|
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Honckenya Ehrh. |
| Species: | H. peploides |
| Binomial name | |
| Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. | |
Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada),[1] is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae. It is often spelled "Honkenya", and is named after the German botanist Gerhard August Honckeny (or Honkeny).[2] It has a circumboreal distribution.
The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white 5-merous flowers with 10 stamens in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils.[3] The fruit capsule opens in 3 valves.
References
- ↑ Integrated taxonomic information system (ITIS). (2009). Retrieved August/04, 2010
- ↑ Le Roy Abrams & Roxana Stinchfield Ferris (1923). Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae, buckwheats to kramerias. An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States 2. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804700047.
- ↑ New Flora of the British Isles, Stace, 2005, Cambridge University Press
External links
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