Stellaria semivestita Edgew. ex Edgew. & Hook. fil., Fl. Brit. India 1: 230 1874.;
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W. & Central Himalaya: Nepal, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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Perennial herbs, about 15-45 cm long, caespitose or tufted. Stem erect or decumbent, much branched, slightly quadrangular or terete, branches much crowded, pubescent with white woolly hairs, rootstock slender. Leaves simple, opposite, linear-subulate, about 7-35 x 1-2 mm across, base rounded, margin ciliate, apex acute, curved, 1 veined, glabrescent or woolly on both sides, midrib impressed above and slightly prominent beneath, succulent or not, petiole short or usually sessile, stipules absent. Inflorescence solitary, terminal or supra-axillary. Flowers bisexual, about 1.2 cm across, pedicel erect, about 1.8-2.8 cm long, bracts paired, foliaceous, margins scarious, sepals 5, lanceolate, triveined, herbaceous, margins scarious, apex acuminate, persistent, about 6 mm long, petals 5, white, slightly longer than sepals, limb bi-fid from the base, margins entire. Stamens 10. Ovary superior, unilocular rarely trilocular, ovules many, style 3. Fruit capsule, obovoid-elliptic, about 4 x 6 mm across, dehiscing with 6 valves or opening by twice the number of styles present. Seeds few, reniform or globose, compressed laterally, about 1 mm across, dark brown.
Temperate Himalayas, altitude 2500-3000 m.
India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nepal
(Attributions: Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India.; Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India.; Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Stellaria semivestita Edgew.: 6 very high res. images.
Habit : Wild
Accordingly, images at Stellaria graminea, will also be of Stellaria semivestita
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Caryophyllaceae Week: Stellaria graminea from Munsiari:
This one was shot from our Gori valley trip….near Munsiari...Stellaria graminea…
I think yes. Very good photographs
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References:
POWO specimen Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 IPNI GBIF specimen (High resolution specimens) India Biodiversity Portal IBIS Flora (Flora of British India)
Lectotypification in Stellaria (Caryophyllaceae) (pdf)- Satish Chandra Dharmendra Singh Rawat- Rheeda Vol.27 (2) 2017 (Abstract: Three names in Stellaria, viz., S. semivestita Edgew., S. subumbellata Edgew. and S. webbiana (Benth. ex G. Don) Edgew. & Hook.f. are lectotypified here)
