View source for Spergularia bocconi

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Spergularia bocconi
|accepted_authority=(Scheele) Graebner in P. F. A. Ascherson et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in P. F. A. Ascherson et al., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl.
|place=5(1): 849. 1919
|year=1919
}}
|common_names= Boccone’s sand-spurrey  
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alsine bocconi
|authority=Scheele
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae;Spergularia;Spergularia bocconi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Spergularia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spergularia bocconi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 17
|treatment_page=page 20
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, ± delicate, 6–25+ cm, often densely stipitate-glandular, at least in inflorescence. <b>Taproots</b> ± filiform. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading or sprawling, usually much-branched proximally; main stem 0.5–1 mm diam. proximally. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules usually inconspicuous, dull white to tan, broadly triangular, 1.5–4.5 mm, apex acute to short-acuminate; blade ± linear, 1–4.2 cm, at least moderately fleshy, apex apiculate to spine-tipped; axillary leaves absent or 1–2 per cluster. <b>Cymes</b> simple to 6+-compound. <b>Pedicels</b> often oriented to 1 side in fruit. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals connate 0.3–0.6 mm proximally, lobes often 3-veined, ovate to elliptic-oblong, 2.2–3.5 mm, to 4.5 mm in fruit, margins 0.2–0.5 mm wide, apex acute to rounded; petals white or pink to rosy, ovate to obovate, 0.8–1 times as long as sepals; stamens 8–10; styles 0.4–0.6 mm. <b>Capsules</b> greenish, 3(–4) mm, 1–1.2 times as long as sepals. <b>Seeds</b> light brown, with submarginal groove, broadly ovate, plump, 0.4–0.6 mm, somewhat shiny, smooth to minutely roughened, margins with peglike papillae (40×); wing absent. <b>2n</b> = 18? (Africa), 36 (Europe).</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Salt marshes, alkaline places, sandy soils
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;sw Europe (Mediterranean region).
|discussion=<p>The spelling of the epithet bocconi, often “corrected” to bocconii, is debatable. It commemorates Paolo Boccone, suggesting a correction to bocconei, but he also used the Latinized form Bocconus, allowing bocconi. We have used bocconi, following the first usage by Scheele.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Spergularia bocconi
|author=
|authority=(Scheele) Graebner in P. F. A. Ascherson et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Alsine bocconi
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Salt marshes, alkaline places, sandy soils
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;sw Europe (Mediterranean region).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in P. F. A. Ascherson et al., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl.
|publication year=1919
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_28.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Polycarpoideae
|genus=Spergularia
|species=Spergularia bocconi
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Spergularia]]