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Paronychia argentea is an herbaceous plant from the family Caryophyllaceae that grows in sandy areas, ways, abandoned fields and dry terrains.

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Paronychia argentea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Paronychia
Species:
P. argentea
Binomial name
Paronychia argentea
Lam.

Description


It is an annual species with procumbent habits, which reaches 30 cm height. Similar to Paronychia capitata but with almost all glabrous leaves, a rigid and prominent sow, and calyx lobules with transparent margins.[1]

The stem is glabrous or pubescent, with opposite, elliptical and mucronate leaves.

The flowers grow in lateral and terminal glomerulus. They are hermaphrodite, pentamerous and actinomorphic, accompanied with scaly silver bracts bigger that themselves. The fruit is an achene.


Habitat and distribution


They can be encountered all around the Mediterranean Sea. It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.


Uses


It is used stewed, as a diuretic and blood purifier, and as a plaster to cure wounds.[2]


Taxonomy


Paronychia argentea was described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and published in Flore Françoise [es] 3: 230. 1778[1779].[3]

Cytology

Paronychia argentea (Fam. Caryophyllaceae) infraspecific number of chromosomes and taxa: 2n=28[4]

Synonymy

References


  1. Blamey, Marjorie; Grey-Wilson Christopher (2008). {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. García Muñoz, B. (2004). {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Paronychia argentea".
  4. Estudio citotaxonómico de la flora de las costas gallegas Lago Canzobre, E. & S. Castroviejo (1993) Cadernos Área Ci. Biol. 3: 1-215
  5. "Sinónimos en Tele Botánica". Archived from the original on 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  6. Paronychia argentea en PlantList

На других языках


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[es] Paronychia argentea

Paronychia argentea, comúnmente llamada sanguinaria o nevadilla, es una planta herbácea de la familia de las cariofiláceas; creciendo en arenales, caminos, campos abandonados y terrenos secos. Es la planta hospedadora del insecto Phyllomorpha laciniata.



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