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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Polycarpon L.
Nomencalture
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Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus:
Polycarpon L.
SUMMARY
Polycarpon L
Annual or perennial herbs, prostrate or ascending, dichotomously branched. Leaves opposite, appearing whorled. Stipules conspicuous, scarious. Inflorescence terminal, branched dichasial cyme. Flowers many, bisexual. Sepals 5, keeled and hooded, scarious on the margin. Petals 5, narrow, entire, white. Stamens 1-5; filaments more or less united at base. Ovary 1-locular, many ovuled. Capsule 3-valved; valves twisting spirally into tubes. Seeds ovoid, many.