- Family: Caryophyllaceae Juss.
Sagina L.
[FTEA]
Caryophyllaceae, W. B. Turrill. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1956
- Morphology General Habit
- Tufted, sometimes cushion-like, or procumbent herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves narrowly linear or subulate, exstipulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small and relatively inconspicuous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4–6, green
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals as many as sepals and alternating with them, or absent; when present white, often small and shorter than the sepals
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens usually 5–10 but the number may vary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary unilocular, with an indefinite number of ovules; styles as many as the sepals and alternating with them
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule opening to the base into as many valves as there are styles.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil South, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chile Central, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, Sinai, South Carolina, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Cape Provinces, Chile South, Colombia, Crozet Is., Ecuador, Falkland Is., Free State, Guatemala, Iowa, Kerguelen, KwaZulu-Natal, Malaya, Marion-Prince Edward, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, New Hampshire, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Peru, Rhode I., Réunion, South Georgia, St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Venezuela, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Sagina abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.
- Sagina afroalpina Hedberg
- Sagina apetala Ard.
- Sagina belonophylla Mattf.
- Sagina brachysepala Chiov.
- Sagina caespitosa Lange
- Sagina chilensis Gay
- Sagina decumbens (Elliott) Torr. & A.Gray
- Sagina diemensis L.G.Adams
- Sagina diffusa (Hook.f.) Timaná
- Sagina donatioides F.Muell.
- Sagina glabra (Willd.) Fenzl
- Sagina hawaiensis Pax
- Sagina hookeri Timaná
- Sagina humifusa (Cambess.) Fenzl ex Rohrb.
- Sagina japonica (Sw.) Ohwi
- Sagina × lemovicensis Simon
- Sagina libanotica Rech.f.
- Sagina maritima Don
- Sagina maxima A.Gray
- Sagina × media Brügger
- Sagina merinoi Pau ex Merino
- Sagina × micrantha Boreau
- Sagina micropetala Rauschert
- Sagina monticola Merr. & L.M.Perry
- Sagina namadgi L.G.Adams
- Sagina nivalis (Lindblad) Fr.
- Sagina nodosa (L.) Fenzl
- Sagina × normaniana Lagerh.
- Sagina oxysepala Boiss.
- Sagina papuana Warb.
- Sagina pilifera (DC.) Fenzl
- Sagina procumbens L.
- Sagina purii R.D.Gaur
- Sagina quinquevalvis Gilli
- Sagina revelieri Jord. & Fourr.
- Sagina rupestris R.T.A.Schouten ex K.Larsen
- Sagina sabuletorum (J.Gay) Lange
- Sagina saginoides (L.) H.Karst.
- Sagina stridii Kit Tan, Zarkos & V.Christodoulou
Sagina L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Cruttwell [790], Papua New Guinea | 9044.000 |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 128 (1753)
Accepted by
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 142.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 62 (1754)
- Sp. Pl. 128 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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