Paronychia argentea

Paronychia argentea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Paronychia
Species: P. argentea
Binomial name
Paronychia argentea
Lam.

Paronychia argentea is an herbaceous plant from the Caryophyllaceae family that grows in sandy areas, ways, abandoned fields and dry terrains.

Sight of the plant in its habitat

Description

It is an annual species with procumbent habits, which reaches 30 cm height. Similar to Paronychia capitata but with almost all glabrous leaves, a rigid and prominent sow, and calyx lobules with transparent margins.[1]

The stem is glabrous or pubescent, with opposite, elliptical and mucronate leaves.

The flowers grow in lateral and terminal glomerulus. They are hermaphrodite, pentamerous and actinomorphic, accompanied with scaly silver bracts bigger that themselves. The fruit is an achene.

Habitat and distribution

They can be encountred all around the Mediterranean Sea. It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.

Uses

It is used stewed, as a diuretic and blood purifier , and as a plaster to cure wounds.[2]

Taxonomy

Paronychia argentea was described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and published in Flore Françoise 3: 230. 1778[1779].[3]

Cytology

Paronychia argentea (Fam. Caryophyllaceae) infraspecific number of chromosomes and taxa: 2n=28[4]

Synonymy

References

  1. Blamey, Marjorie; Grey-Wilson Christopher (2008).
  2. García Muñoz, B. (2004).
  3. «Paronychia argentea».
  4. Estudio citotaxonómico de la flora de las costas gallegas Lago Canzobre, E. & S. Castroviejo (1993) Cadernos Área Ci. Biol. 3: 1-215
  5. Sinónimos en Tele Botánica
  6. Paronychia argentea en PlantList
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