Honckenya peploides
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Honckenya peploides or Sea sandwort(UK) or Seaside Sandplant (Canada) is the only species
in the genus
Honckenya of the flowering plant
family
Caryophyllaceae
. It is often spelled "Honkenya". It has a circumboreal
distribution
.
The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white 5 merous flowers with 10 stamen
s in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils. The fruit capsule opens in 3 valves.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
in the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Honckenya of the flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae
The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae and Polygonaceae...
. It is often spelled "Honkenya". It has a circumboreal
Circumboreal Region
The Circumboreal Region is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan....
distribution
Range (biology)
In biology, the range or distribution of a species is the geographical area within which that species can be found. Within that range, dispersion is variation in local density.The term is often qualified:...
.
The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white 5 merous flowers with 10 stamen
Stamen
The stamen is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower...
s in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils. The fruit capsule opens in 3 valves.