Honckenya peploides
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| Honckenya peploides | |
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| Honckenya peploides | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Honckenya |
| Species: | H. peploides |
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| Honckenya peploides L. |
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Honckenya peploides or 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". 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. [2]The fruit capsule opens in 3 valves.
[edit] References
- ^ Integrated taxonomic information system (ITIS). (2009). Retrieved August/04, 2010
- ^ New Flora of the British Isles, Stace, 2005, Cambridge University Press
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