Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Molluginaceae > Hypertelis > Hypertelis cerviana

Hypertelis cerviana (thread-stem carpetweed; threadstem carpetweed)

Synonyms: Mollugo cerviana (homotypic); Mollugo cerviana var. cerviana; Mollugo tenuissima; Pharnaceum cerviana (heterotypic); Pharnaceum glabrum

Wikipedia Abstract

Mollugo cerviana is a species of flowering plant known by the common name threadstem carpetweed. It can be found on most continents growing as a weed in many types of dry, sandy habitat types. It is an annual herb producing a thin, erect stem up to about 20 centimeters tall. The narrow, waxy leaves are up to 1.5 centimeters long, linear in shape, and arranged in whorls around the stem. The inflorescence is a loose umbel of tiny flowers each made up of whitish, petal-like sepals less than 2 millimeters long, and no true petals.
View Wikipedia Record: Hypertelis cerviana

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Grand Canyon National Park II 1210128 Arizona, United States
Jornada Biosphere Reserve Ib 30913 New Mexico, United States
Khopersky Zapovednik Ia 47103 Russia  
Zion National Park II 135667 Utah, United States

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0