Paronychia erecta (Chapm.) Shinners

Plants with pubescent stems, strigose leaves, and pubescent receptacles have been recognized as var. corymbosa.

Plants perennial (occasionally biennial), often matted; taproot stout. Stems prostrate to ascending, branched especially distally, retrorsely to spreading-pubescent throughout (when pubescent); flowering stems 8-48 cm; sterile stems 2-10 cm. Leaves: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 2-12 mm, apex acuminate, entire; blade linear to spatulate-oblanceolate, 4-40 × 1-4 mm, leathery, apex obtuse to acute, moderately antrorsely pubescent. Cymes terminal, 15-200+-flowered, branched, densely to loosely grouped to form subcorymbose clusters 5-50 mm wide. Flowers 5-merous, narrowly ellipsoid, with slightly enlarged hypanthium and calyx tapering distally, 2.3-3.5 mm, glabrous to slightly puberulent proximally with straight to hooked hairs; sepals red-brown, white or whitish distally, veins absent, narrowly oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 1.4-2 mm, papery, margins white, ca. 0.1 mm wide, papery, apex rounded, hood formed from slight incurving, awn or mucro absent; staminodes narrowly oblong, 0.4 mm; style 1, cleft in distal 1/ 10, 1.3-1.7 mm. Utricles ovoid to ellipsoid, 1-1.2 mm, rugulose, glabrous.

Ala., Fla., La., Miss.

Flowering spring-fall.

Coastal dunes, sandflats, pine/oak woodlands; 0-100m.

Siphonychia erecta Chapman, Fl. South. U.S., 47. 1860; Odontonychia corymbosa (Small) Small; O. erecta (Chapman) Small; Paronychia erecta var. corymbosa (Small) Chaudhri

Paronychia erecta là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Cẩm chướng. Loài này được (Chapm.) Shinners mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1962.