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Eremogone macradenia

MOJAVE or DESERT SANDWORT


Higher Taxonomy
Family: CaryophyllaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: PINK FAMILY
Habit: Annual to perennial herb; rarely dioecious (Silene), taprooted or rhizome generally slender. Leaf: simple, generally opposite (subwhorled), entire, pairs at nodes often +- connected at bases; stipules generally 0; petiole generally 0. Inflorescence: generally cyme, generally open; flowers 1--many; involucre generally 0 (present in most Dianthus, Petrorhagia). Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium often present but obscure; sepals (4)5, +- free or fused into a tube, margins generally scarious, more so on inner 2 or not, tube generally not scarious, awns generally 0; petals (4)5 or 0, generally tapered to base (or with claw long, limb expanded), entire to 2--several-lobed, limb generally without scale-like appendages adaxially, generally without ear-like lobes at base; stamens generally 10, generally fertile, generally free, generally from ovary base; nectaries 0 or 5; ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, placentas basal or free-central, styles 2--5 with 0 branches or 1 with 2--3 branches. Fruit: capsule or utricle (rarely +- dehiscent), generally sessile. Seed: appendage generally 0 (present in Moehringia).
Genera In Family: +- 100 genera, 3000 species: widespread, especially arctic, alpine, temperate northern hemisphere; some cultivated (Agrostemma, Arenaria, Atocion, Cerastium, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Sagina, Saponaria, Silene). Note: Apetalous Caryophyllaceae can also be keyed in Rabeler & Hartman 2005 FNANM 5:5--8. Taxa of Minuartia in TJM2 treated here in Cherleria and Sabulina; Pseudostellaria in Hartmaniella and Torreyostellaria; Vaccaria in Gypsophila; Velezia in Dianthus.
eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin & Thomas J. Rosatti.
Genus: EremogoneView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Common Name: SANDWORT
Habit: Perennial herb, prostrate (non-flowering stems) or ascending to erect to mat-forming, taprooted. Leaf: needle-like to narrowly linear; vein 1. Inflorescence: terminal, open to head- or umbel-like; flowers 1--many; peduncles, pedicels 0--55 mm. Flower: hypanthium present; sepals 5, +- free, 3--7.2 mm, lance-linear to ovate, glabrous to glandular-hairy; petals 5, 2--18 mm, entire or +- notched; stamens on hypanthium; ovary +- superior, styles 3, 2.5--3 mm. Fruit: capsule, ovoid to urn-shaped; teeth 6, ascending to recurved. Seed: 1--9, +- gray, dark brown, red-brown, yellow-tan, black-purple, or +- black.
Etymology: (Greek: solitary or deserted + seed, allusion uncertain) Note: Based in part on molecular evidence (Harbaugh et al. 2010 Intl J Plant Sci 171:185--198), 2 subgenera of Arenaria treated here as Eremogone.
eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler
Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2004 Sida 21:237--241
Unabridged Reference: Hartman, Rabeler, & Utech 2005 FNANM 5:56--70
Eremogone macradenia (S. Watson) Ikonn.
NATIVE
Habit: Perennial herb, tufted, green. Stem: 20--40 cm, rounded, +- dull, glandular-hairy or not. Leaf: 20--60 mm, 0.5--2 mm wide, blunt to sharp-pointed, vein 1. Inflorescence: terminal, generally open; flowers several to many; pedicels 3--55 mm. Flower: sepals 4.5--7.2 mm, in fruit < 8 mm, acute to acuminate; petals 6--11 mm; nectaries rectangular, 2-lobed or truncate, 0.7--1.5 mm. Fruit: 6--7 mm. Seed: 4--9, 1.8--2.7 mm, +- spheric to ovate, compressed, red-brown to +- black; tubercles low, rounded to conic.

Synonyms: Arenaria macradenia S. Watson
Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler
Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2004 Sida 21:237--241
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Citation for this treatment: Ronald L. Hartman (deceased) & Richard K. Rabeler 2012, Eremogone macradenia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=24564, accessed on December 03, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.

Eremogone macradenia  
var. macradenia
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Eremogone macradenia  
var. macradenia
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Eremogone macradenia  
var. macradenia
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Eremogone macradenia  
var. macradenia
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Eremogone macradenia
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