Honckenya peploides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Honckenya
- Species
- Honckenya peploides
- Scientific Name
- Honckenya peploides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Honckenya
Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada), is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea purslane. The scientific name is often spelled "Honkenya", and is named after the German botanist Gerhard August Honckeny (or Honkeny). This plant has a circumboreal distribution.
The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white pentamerous flowers with 10 stamens in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils. The fruit capsule opens in three valves.
...Honckenya peploides in languages:
- Bokmål
- strandarve
- Czech
- kuřinečka pryšcovitá
- Danish
- Strandarve
- Dutch
- Zeepostelein
- English
- Sea Sandwort
- English
- Seabeach Sandwort
- English
- Sea-Chickweed
- English
- Seaside Sandplant
- English
- seaside sandwort
- English
- Sea Purslane
- Estonian
- merihumur
- Finnish
- suola-arho
- French
- Pourpier de mer
- German
- Salzmiere
- German
- Strandportulak
- Latvian
- Biezlapainā sālsvirza
- Lithuanian
- Sultingoji jūrasmiltė
- Polish
- Honkenia piaskowa
- Russian
- Гонкения бутерлаковидная
- Swedish
- saltarv
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