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.
Etymology: (J. Torrey, American botanist, 1796--1873 + Stellaria, where originally placed by Torrey) eFlora Treatment Author: Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2005 FNANM 5:114--116; Xue et al. 2023 Front Plant Sci 14:1127443
Torreyostellaria jamesiana (Torr.) Gang Yao, B. Xue & Z.Q. Song.
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb, 12--45 cm, ascending to erect, glandular-hairy, at least above; rhizomed, with spheric to elongate, tuber-like thickenings 3--12 mm diam. Stem: simple to much-branched, 4-angled. Leaf: 15--150 mm, +- smaller above, thick; blade linear to +- lanceolate or elliptic margin +- smooth to roughened; vein 1. Inflorescence: flowers many, in leafy cymes; pedicels glandular-hairy, in fruit recurved to reflexed from base. Flower: hypanthium 0; sepals 5, free, 3--7 mm, lanceolate to +- ovate, glandular-hairy, margin scarious; petals 5, 5--9.5 mm, 2-lobed < 1/5 to base; stamens on ovary base, anthers purple; styles 3, 2--4.5 mm. Fruit: capsule, spheric; valves 6, +- 2--3 × recoiled. Seed: 1--2, 2--3.4 mm, red-brown to brown. Chromosomes: 2n=96. Ecology: Meadows, sagebrush-grassland, dry understory of conifer forest; Elevation: 1400--2700 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SN (exc n SNF), WTR, MP; Distribution Outside California: to Washington, Montana, Colorado, Texas. Flowering Time: Summer Synonyms: Pseudostellaria jamesiana (Torr.) W.A. Weber & R.L. Hartm.; Stellaria jamesiana Torr.; Schizotechium jamesianum (Torr.) Arabi, Rabeler & Zarre Jepson eFlora Author: Richard K. Rabeler Reference: Hartman & Rabeler 2005 FNANM 5:114--116; Xue et al. 2023 Front Plant Sci 14:1127443 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Torreyostellaria Next taxon: Celastraceae
Botanical illustration including Torreyostellaria jamesiana
Citation for this treatment: Richard K. Rabeler 2023, Torreyostellaria jamesiana, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 12, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=8633, accessed on February 07, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 07, 2025.
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