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|accepted_name=Paronychia lindheimeri
|accepted_authority=Engelmann ex A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|place=6: 152. 1850
|year=1850
}}
|common_names=Forked nailwort
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia chorizanthoides
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paronychia lindheimeri var. longibracteata
|authority=Chaudhri
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Paronychia;Paronychia lindheimeri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paronychia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paronychia lindheimeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 32
|treatment_page=page 39
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot filiform to slender. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, much-branched, 15–33 cm, glabrous to minutely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules lanceolate to ovate, 2.5–5 mm, apex acuminate to long-acuminate, entire; blade linear to filiform, 8–15 × 0.4–0.8 mm, leathery, apex acute to submucronate, glabrous. <b>Cymes</b> terminal and axillary, 5–20+-flowered, dichotomous, repeatedly branching and diffusely spreading, open, clusters 0.5–1.5 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous, short-campanulate, with enlarged hypanthium and calyx slightly constricted proximally, 1.6–2 mm, appressed-puberulent proximally; sepals red-brown, midrib and lateral pair of veins absent to evident, oblong, 0.8–1.1 mm, leathery to rigid, margins whitish to translucent, 0.05–0.1 mm wide, scarious, apex terminated by awn, hood present, broadly rounded, awn divergently spreading, 0.4–0.6 mm, ± broadly conic in proximal 1/2 with pale-yellow, scabrous spine; staminodes filiform, 0.5–0.7 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/6, 0.6–0.7 mm. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid-globose, 0.8–0.9 mm, smooth, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky places on limestone hills and high prairies
|elevation=100-600 m
|distribution=Tex.
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name=Paronychia lindheimeri
|authority=Engelmann ex A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paronychia chorizanthoides;Paronychia lindheimeri var. longibracteata
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky places on limestone hills and high prairies
|elevation=100-600 m
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Boston J. Nat. Hist.
|publication year=1850
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Paronychia
|species=Paronychia lindheimeri
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