Arenaria leptoclados (Rchb.) Guss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science (original) (raw)

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Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Russia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Yemen

Introduced into:

Arkansas, Bermuda, Denmark, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Great Britain, Ireland, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Norway, Pennsylvania, Poland, South Carolina, Sweden, Tasmania, Tennessee, Virginia

Homotypic Synonyms

• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. leptoclados Rchb. in Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 5: 32 (1841)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman in Consp. Fl. Eur.: 115 (1878)

Heterotypic Synonyms

• Arenaria breviflora Gilib. in Fl. Lit. Inch. 2: 155 (1782), opus utique oppr.
• Arenaria cantabrica Amo in Fl. Fan. Peníns. Ibérica 6: 140 (1873)
• Arenaria foliacea Turrill in Kew Bull. 9: 415 (1954)
• Arenaria gorgonea J.A.Schmidt in Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. Ins.: 278 (1852)
• Arenaria leptoclados var. lindbergii Sennen & Mauricio in É.M.G.Sennen, Diagn. Nouv.: 246 (1936)
• Arenaria leptoclados var. minutiflora (Loscos) Willk. in Suppl. Prodr. Fl. Hispan.: 275 (1893)
• Arenaria leptoclados subsp. minutiflora (Loscos) P.Monts. in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 37: 625 (1980 publ. 1981)
• Arenaria leptoclados var. viscidula (Roth) F.N.Williams in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 33: 368 (1898)
• Arenaria leptoclados subsp. viscidula (Roth) Holub in Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 18: 205 (1983), nom. superfl.
• Arenaria lloydii var. gracillima Willk. in Icon. Descr. Pl. Nov. 1: 95 (1855), nom. illeg.
• Arenaria minutiflora Loscos in Trat. Pl. Aragon 1: 21 (1877)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. cantabrica (Amo) Nyman in Consp. Fl. Eur., Suppl. 2: 66 (1889)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. glutinosa Mert. & W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 3: 166 (1831), nom. superfl.
• Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. glutinosa Arcang. in Comp. Fl. Ital.: 101 (1882)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. gracillima Willk. in M.Willkomm & J.M.C.Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 3: 620 (1878), nom. illeg.
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. minutiflora (Loscos) Pit. & Proust in Iles Canaries: 121 (1909)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. minutiflora (Loscos) H.Lindb. in Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., Ser. B, Opera Biol. 1(2): 44 (1932)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. prostrata Willk. in Flora 34: 606 (1851)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. tenuior Mert. & W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 3: 266 (1831)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. tenuior (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) Arcang. in Comp. Fl. Ital.: 101 (1882)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. viscidula Roth in Enum. Pl. Phaen. Germ. 1(2): 318 (1827)
• Arenaria serpyllifolia var. viscidula Rouy & Foucaud in Fl. France 3: 242 (1896), nom. illeg.
• Arenaria tenuior (Mert. & W.D.J.Koch) Gürke in K.Richter, Pl. Eur. 2: 273 (1899)
• Arenaria tenuior var. balearica Sennen & Pau in Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat. 11: 17 (1911)
• Arenaria tenuior var. minutiflora (Loscos) Gürke in K.Richter, Pl. Eur. 2: 274 (1899)
• Arenaria viscidula Fedor. in Ecofl. Ukrayini 3: 26 (2002), nom. illeg.
• Arenaria viscidula (Roth) Tzvelev in Konspekt Fl. Vost. Evr. 1: 220 (2012), nom. illeg.
• Arenaria zozii Kleopow in Zhurn. Inst. Bot. Vseukraïns'k. Akad. Nauk 29-30: 247 (1939)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Hassler, M. & Muer, T. (2022). Flora Germanica: alle Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Deutschlands in Text und Bild 2: 865-1712. Verlag Regionalkultur, Uberstadt-Weiher.
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
• von Raab-Straube, E. (ed.) (2023-continuously updated). Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity http://www.europlusmed.org/.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados.]
• Komiljon, T., Natalya, B., Avazbek, B., Dilnoza, A., Ziyoviddin, Y., Deng, T. & Sun, H. (2020). Flora of the Dzhizak Province, Uzbekistan: 1-523. China Forestry Publishing House. [Cited as Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados.]
• Urgamal, M., Oyuntsetseg, B., Nyambayar, D. & Dulamsuren, C. (2014). Conspectus of the vascular plants of Mongolia: 1. Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany. [Cited as Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados.]

Flora of Iraq

• Blakelock, Kew Bull. 2: 182 (1957)
• Ghazanfar & Nasır in Fl. Pak. 175: 8 (1986)
• Gilbert in Fl. Ethiop. & Eritr. 2(1): 213 (2000).
• Gilbert in Fl. Somalia 1: 104 (1993)
• Guss., Fl. Sic. Syn. 2: 824 (1845)
• McNeill in Fl. Turk. 2: 28 (1967)
• McNeill, Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 24, 3: 286 (1963)
• Phitos, Fl. Hellenica 1: 166 (1997
• Rech. f. in Fl. Iranica, 163: 14 (1988)

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Abdulina, S.A. (1999). Spisok Sosudistykn Rastenii Kazakhstana: 1-187. Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• B.A.Fedtschenko & al. (1948). Flora Turkmenii 3: 1-280. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad.
• Britton, N. (1918). Flora of Bermuda: 1-585. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
• Gubanov, I.A. & al. (2013). Illiustrirovannyi opredelitel rastenii Srednei Rossii, ed. 2, 2: 1-664. KMK Scientific Press, Moskva.
• Jonsell, B. (ed.) (2001). Flora Nordica 2: 1-430. The Bergius Foundaton.
• Knapp, W.M. & Naczi, R.F.C. (2021). Vascular plants of Maryland, USA. A comprehensive account of the state's botanical diversity. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 113: 1-151.
• Korovin, E.P. & Vvedensky, A.I. (eds.) (1953). Flora Uzbekistana 2: 1-547. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
• Lazkov, G.A. & Sultanova, B.A. (2011). Checklist of vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan. Norrlinia 24: 1-166.
• Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2003). Flora of Siberia 6: 1-301. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
• Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (2004). Ethnoflora of Soqotra Archipelago: 1-759. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
• Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
• Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1968). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 3: 1-710. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
• Rechinger, K.H., Melzheimer, V., Möschl, W. & Schiman-Czeika, H. (1988). Flora Iranica 163: 1-528. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz.
• Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
• Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) in Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2012). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 3(2): 1-623. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
• Urgamal, M., Oyuntsetseg, B., Nyambayar, D. & Dulamsuren, C. (2014). Conspectus of the vascular plants of Mongolia: 1. Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany.
• de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

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• • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
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