| Melandrium affine J. Vahl | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Melandrium furcatum, Lychnis furcata Fern., Lychnis apetala var. elatior Regel. | ||
| Description | Stem 5-20 cm tall or sometimes taller, short-pubescent; basal leaves oblanceo- late or oblong spatulate, pubescent, with small, light-colored hairs, especially in margin; stem leaves in 1 to 2 pairs, oblong, shorter than basal leaves; flowers erect, single or 2-3 together; calyx longer than broad, campanulate, densely viscid- pubescent, inflated in age, in var. brachycalyx (Raup) Hult. (M. brachycalyx Raup) about as long as broad or broader; petals white, one-third longer than calyx; seeds with thin wing. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places. Described from Greenland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related M. an- gustifiorum (Rupr.) Walp. (Gastrolychnis angustiflora Rupr.), which has longer stem leaves. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.