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Velezia
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
FNA
Resources
Ronald L. Hartman, Richard K. Rabeler in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs,
annual.
Taproots
slender.
Stems
simple or branched, terete.
Leaves
connate proximally by line of tissue or sheath, sessile; blade 3-veined, linear to subulate, apex acute.
Inflorescences
axillary, flowers generally solitary; bracts foliaceous; involucel bracteoles absent.
Pedicels
erect.
Flowers:
sepals 11-15 mm; tube green, 15-veined, narrowly cylindric, terete, commissures between sepals absent, lobes green or reddish, 3-veined proximally, lanceolate-acuminate, shorter than tube, margins silvery, scarious, apex acute; petals 5, pink or purple, clawed, auricles absent, corona of 6-8, linear to lanceolate segments, blade apex entire or notched; nectaries at filament bases; stamens 5; filaments distinct; staminodes absent; ovary 1-locular; styles 2, 9-10 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2, linear along adaxial surface of styles, papillate (30×).
Capsules
narrowly cylindric, opening by 4 ascending teeth; carpophore present.
Seeds
6-8, black, ovate-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, finely papillate, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo central, straight.
x
= 14.
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Velezia rigida
Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (
DBI 9983132
,
BRC 0237418
,
DBI 0743827
,
DBI 0847966
)
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