WorldFloraDB - Cerastium arabidis

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, up to 0.3 m high, glandular-hairy. Leaves opposite, spathulate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in cymes. Sepals pilose and glandular-hairy, glabrous below apex. Petals white, mostly 1.3-2.6 x longer than sepals, retracting to sepal length after anthesis. Flowering time Nov.-Jan. Fruit elongating to 1.5-2.0 x as long as sepals, 12-13 x 2.7 mm.

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Annual herb, 0.05-0.30 m high. Stems erect, slender; glandular-hairy. Leaves sessile; blade narrowly ovate to ovate, 10-30 x 3-10 mm, sessile. Flowers: style with only upper 2/3 papillate; corolla white; Oct.-Jan. Fruit a membranous capsule, splitting into 10 short lobes above.

Erect, slender annual herb, up to 460 mm tall. Leaves narrowly ovate to ovate, sessile. Style with only upper two-thirds papillate. Fruit a membranous capsule, splitting into 10 short lobes above. Flowers white.

Life form	annual
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	0.3
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days)	5 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°)	15
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:152064-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000595134
COL ID	SK39
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Cerastium dregeanum Cerastium arabidis Cerastium brachycarpum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Cerastium arabidis E.Mey. ex Fenzl

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