- Family: Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Stellaria L.
[FZ]
Caryophyllaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs usually with slender diffuse stems.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite, sessile or petiolate, simple, entire, flat or very rarely subulate, exstipulate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences of terminal dichasial cymes, rarely flowers solitary.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4–5, free.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 4–5, white, deeply bilobed, or occasionally absent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 10 (5 + 5) or fewer by reduction.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 1-locular; styles (2) 3, free.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule usually more or less rounded, opening at the apex by 3 or 6 (rarely 2 or 4) valves.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds numerous or occasionally 1–4-, roundish-reniform.
[FTEA]
Caryophyllaceae, W. B. Turrill. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1956
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs, often with slender diffuse stems, glabrous or hairy
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite, simple, entire, flat to (rarely) subulate, exstipulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences dichasial cymes which are terminal to the branches, rarely the flowers solitary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals free, 4–5
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 4–5, more or less deeply bilobed, white, or occasionally absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 5 + 5, or fewer by reduction
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Styles generally 3 but sometimes 2, free
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule unilocular with 3 (or rarely 2) or 6 (rarely 4) valves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds either numerous or 1–4.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Arkansas, Azores, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Crozet Is., Cuba, Free State, Galápagos, Guinea, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Marion-Prince Edward, Mauritius, Namibia, New Caledonia, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, South Georgia, St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Windward Is., Zambia
- Stellaria abaensis H.F.Xu & Z.H.Ma
- Stellaria × adulterina Focke
- Stellaria alaschanica Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria alaskana Hultén
- Stellaria alexeenkoana Schischk.
- Stellaria alsine Grimm
- Stellaria alsinoides Boiss. & Buhse
- Stellaria altimontana N.S.Pavlova
- Stellaria × ambigua Bég.
- Stellaria amblyosepala Schrenk
- Stellaria americana (Porter ex B.L.Rob.) Standl.
- Stellaria anagalloides Rupr.
- Stellaria angarae Popov
- Stellaria angustifolia Hook.
- Stellaria antillana Urb.
- Stellaria antoniana Volponi
- Stellaria apetala Ucria
- Stellaria aphanantha Griseb.
- Stellaria aphananthoidea Muschl.
- Stellaria aquatica (L.) Scop.
- Stellaria arenarioides Shi L.Chen, Rabeler & Turland
- Stellaria arisanensis (Hayata) Hayata
- Stellaria arvalis Fenzl ex F.Phil.
- Stellaria australis Zoll. & Moritzi
- Stellaria bistyla Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria blatteri Mattf.
- Stellaria borealis Bigelow
- Stellaria brachypetala Bunge
- Stellaria bungeana Fenzl
- Stellaria calycantha (Ledeb.) Bong.
- Stellaria celsa Ravenna
- Stellaria cherleriae (Fisch. ex Ser.) F.N.Williams
- Stellaria chilensis Pedersen
- Stellaria chinensis Regel
- Stellaria ciliatosepala Trautv.
- Stellaria cilicica Boiss. & Balansa
- Stellaria circinata Ravenna
- Stellaria concinna Ravenna
- Stellaria congestiflora H.Hara
- Stellaria corei Shinners
- Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh.
- Stellaria crassipes Hultén
- Stellaria crispa Cham. & Schltdl.
- Stellaria cryptopetala Griseb.
- Stellaria cupaniana (Jord. & Fourr.) Bég.
- Stellaria cuspidata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria darvasievii Kamelin
- Stellaria davurica D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria debilis d'Urv.
- Stellaria decipiens Hook.f.
- Stellaria decumbens Edgew.
- Stellaria delavayi Franch.
- Stellaria depressa Em.Schmid
- Stellaria dianthifolia F.N.Williams
- Stellaria dichotoma L.
- Stellaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Fenzl
- Stellaria discolor Turcz.
- Stellaria edwardsii R.Br.
- Stellaria emirnensis Danguy
- Stellaria erlangeriana Engl.
- Stellaria eschscholtziana Fenzl
- Stellaria fennica (Murb.) Perfil.
- Stellaria fenzlii Regel
- Stellaria filicaulis Makino
- Stellaria filiformis (Benth.) Mattf.
- Stellaria fischeriana Ser.
- Stellaria flaccida Hook.
- Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
- Stellaria graminea L.
- Stellaria gyangtsensis F.N.Williams
- Stellaria gyirongensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria hebecalyx Fenzl
- Stellaria henryi F.N.Williams
- Stellaria himalayensis Majumdar
- Stellaria hintoniorum B.L.Turner
- Stellaria holostea L.
- Stellaria howardii Maguire
- Stellaria humifusa Rottb.
- Stellaria × hybrida Rouy & Foucaud
- Stellaria imbricata Bunge
- Stellaria infracta Maxim.
- Stellaria inundata Vorosch.
- Stellaria irazuensis Donn.Sm.
- Stellaria irrigua Bunge
- Stellaria jacutica Schischk.
- Stellaria karatavica Schischk.
- Stellaria koelzii Rech.f.
- Stellaria kolymensis A.P.Khokhr.
- Stellaria kotschyana Fenzl ex Boiss.
- Stellaria krylovii N.V.Vlassova & Artemov
- Stellaria laeta Richardson
- Stellaria lanata Hook.f.
- Stellaria × lancifolia Kom.
- Stellaria lanipes C.Y.Wu & H.Chuang
- Stellaria laxmannii Fisch. ex Ser.
- Stellaria leptoclada (Benth.) C.H.Mill. & J.G.West
- Stellaria littoralis Torr.
- Stellaria longifolia Muhl. ex Willd.
- Stellaria longipes Goldie
- Stellaria mainlingensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria mannii Hook.f.
- Stellaria martjanovii Krylov
- Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
- Stellaria merzbacheri Kozhevn.
- Stellaria miahuatlana B.L.Turner
- Stellaria minuta Kirk
- Stellaria minutifolia Maguire
- Stellaria montioides (Edgew. & Hook.f.) Ghaz.
- Stellaria multiflora Hook.
- Stellaria neglecta (Lej.) Weihe
- Stellaria nemorum L.
- Stellaria nepalensis Majumdar & Vartak
- Stellaria nipponica Ohwi
- Stellaria nitens Nutt.
- Stellaria nubigena Standl.
- Stellaria obtusa Engelm.
- Stellaria omeiensis C.Y.Wu & Tsui ex P.Ke
- Stellaria ovata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria ovatifolia (M.Mizush.) M.Mizush.
- Stellaria oxycoccoides Kom.
- Stellaria palustris Ehrh. ex Hoffm.
- Stellaria papillata C.H.Mill. & J.G.West
- Stellaria parva Pedersen
- Stellaria parviflora Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
- Stellaria parviumbellata Y.Z.Zhao
- Stellaria patens D.Don
- Stellaria pauciflora Zoll. & Moritzi
- Stellaria pedersenii Volponi
- Stellaria peduncularis Bunge
- Stellaria perfoliata Rech.f.
- Stellaria persica Boiss.
- Stellaria petiolaris Hand.-Mazz.
- Stellaria petraea Bunge
- Stellaria pilosoides Shi L.Chen, Rabeler & Turland
- Stellaria pinvalliaca Chandra Sek. & S.K.Srivast.
- Stellaria platyphylla Rech.f.
- Stellaria porsildii C.C.Chinnappa
- Stellaria pterosperma Ohwi
- Stellaria pubera Michx.
- Stellaria pulvinata Grubov
- Stellaria pungens Brongn.
- Stellaria pusilla Em.Schmid
- Stellaria radians L.
- Stellaria recurvata Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria reticulivena Hayata
- Stellaria rigida Bunge
- Stellaria roughii Hook.f.
- Stellaria ruscifolia D.F.K.Schltdl.
- Stellaria salicifolia Tsui & P.Ke
- Stellaria sanjuanensis (Greene ex Rydb.) M.T.Sharples & E.A.Tripp
- Stellaria sarcophylla Rech.f.
- Stellaria scaturiginella Rech.f.
- Stellaria schischkinii Peschkova
- Stellaria schugnanica Schischk.
- Stellaria semivestita Edgew.
- Stellaria sennii Chiov.
- Stellaria serpens Ravenna
- Stellaria sessiliflora Y.Yabe
- Stellaria sibirica (Regel & Tiling) Schischk.
- Stellaria sikaramensis Rech.f.
- Stellaria sikkimensis Hook.f.
- Stellaria sitchana Steud.
- Stellaria soongorica Roshev.
- Stellaria souliei F.N.Williams
- Stellaria strongylosepala Hand.-Mazz.
- Stellaria tibetica Kurz
- Stellaria tomentella Ohwi
- Stellaria turkestanica Schischk.
- Stellaria uchiyamana Makino
- Stellaria uda F.N.Williams
- Stellaria venezuelana Steyerm.
- Stellaria vestita Kurz
- Stellaria viridifolia (A.P.Khokhr.) A.P.Khokhr.
- Stellaria wallichiana Haines
- Stellaria weddellii Pedersen
- Stellaria williamsiana Kozhevn.
- Stellaria winkleri (Briq.) Schischk.
- Stellaria wushanensis F.N.Williams
- Stellaria xanthospora Chodat & Wilczek
- Stellaria yungasensis (Rusby) Rusby ex Volponi
- Stellaria yunnanensis Franch.
- Stellaria zangnanensis L.H.Zhou
- Stellaria zhuxiensis Q.L.Gan & X.W.Li
- Adenonema Bunge
- Alsine Tourn. ex L.
- Alsinula Dostál
- Ballarion Raf.
- Bigelowia Raf.
- Fimbripetalum (Turcz.) Ikonn.
- Hylebia Fourr.
- Larbrea A.St.-Hil.
- Leucostemma Benth. ex G.Don
- Malachium Fr. ex Rchb.
- Mesostemma Vved.
- Micropetalon Pers.
- Myosanthus Desv.
- Myosoton Moench
- Plettkea Mattf.
- Spergulastrum Michx.
- Stellularia Hill
- Tytthostemma Nevski
Stellaria L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 421 (1753)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 141.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed 5: 193 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1: 421 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 193 (1754)
- Sp. Pl. 421 (1753)
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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