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17. Moehringia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 359. 1753.
种阜草属 zhong fu cao shu
Lu Dequan; Richard K. Rabeler
Herbs annual or perennial. Stems straggling, caespitose, ascending, or erect, slender. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, oblong, obovate, or ovate-lanceolate to linear; stipules absent. Flowers solitary or in lax, few-flowered cymes; bracts immediately subtending calyx absent. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5, white, margin entire. Stamens (5 or 8) or 10. Ovary 1-loculed; ovules numerous; styles (2 or)3. Capsule ovoid, (4 or)6-toothed. Seeds few, reddish black, smooth, lucid, with a membranous strophiole; embryo curved.
About 25 species: N temperate regions; three species in China.
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Petals 1/3--1/2 as long as sepals; leaves 3-veined, ovate or broadly ovate |
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3 M. trinervia |
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Petals ca. 2 × as long as sepals; leaves 1-veined. |
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Leaves elliptic or oblong |
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1 M. lateriflora |
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Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate |
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2 M. umbrosa |
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