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This genus is accepted, and its native range is Temp. & Subtropical America, Macaronesia, Medit. to Iran and NE. Tropical Africa.

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Perennial or, less often, annual herbs, often suffruticose or woody at base, usually much branched
Morphology Leaves
Leaves sessile or subsessile, members of pair often unequal, tip often cuspidate or mucronate; stipules ovate-lanceolate, often conspicuous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Flowers mostly in terminal or lateral clusters, rarely in cymes, small, usually ± concealed by large silvery scarious bracts
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 5-merous, receptacle cup-shaped
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals mostly hooded with scarious margin and subapical awn
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens (1–)5, usually alternating with 5 staminodes
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary ovoid, narrowed upwards to distinct style with 2 stigma lobes or 2 free styles; ovule 1
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
Utricle enclosed within persistent perianth, wall membranous, breaking irregularly
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seed subglobose, smooth.
Distribution
Over 110 species ± equally divided between the New World, with centres of diversity in Peru and the SE U.S.A., and the Old World from the Cape Verde Islands to Iran with a centre of diversity in and around Turkey, only seven species penetrating into tropical Africa south to Chad, Ethiopia and Somalia plus one S American species also found in S Africa and Australia.

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Baleares, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Delaware, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Georgia, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Sahara, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yemen, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces

Paronychia Mill. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4: s.p. (1754)

Literature

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Chaudrhi, op. cit.: 64–297 (1968).

Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0