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Spergularia
Sign in to saveSpergularia is a genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, containing salt-tolerant plants known as sandspurrys (or sandspurries) and sea-spurreys. There are about 60 species.
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It sits within the topics Caryophyllaceae genera, Spergularia and Taxa named by Carl Borivoj Presl.
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Species
sandspurry
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCaryophyllaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,343
- With media
- 921
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Collections
- MSC, IBUNAM, INECOL, F, CAS, CHSC
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Perú, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, South Africa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Spergularia-rubra-20090409a.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Spergularia
- taxon name
- Spergularia
- topic's main category
- Category:Spergularia
- taxon common name
- nitnica
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Selected species
- See also
- References
Spergularia is a genus in the family Caryophyllaceae, containing salt-tolerant plants known as sandspurrys (or sandspurries) and sea-spurreys. There are about 60 species.
==Selected species== Spergularia azorica – endemic to the archipelago of the Azores Spergularia atrosperma – blackseed sandspurry Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Graebn. – Boccone's sand-spurrey Spergularia canadensis – Canadian sandspurry Spergularia catalaunica Monnier Spergularia diandra (Guss.) Boiss. Spergularia echinosperma (Celak.) Asch. & Graebn. Spergularia heldreichii Foucaud Spergularia macrorrhiza (Loisel.) Heynh. Spergularia macrotheca – sticky sandspurry Spergularia marina (L.) Besser – lesser sea-spurrey Spergularia media (L.) C.Presl – greater sea-spurrey Spergularia nicaeensis Sarato ex Burnat Spergularia platensis Spergularia rubra (L.) J.Presl & C.Presl – red sand-spurrey Spergularia rupicola Lebel ex Le Jol. Spergularia salina J.Presl & C.Presl Spergularia segetalis (L.) G.Don Spergularia tasmanica Spergularia tangerina P.Monnier Spergularia villosa – hairy sandspurry
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spergularia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.