Honckenya

Honckenya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Honckenya
Ehrh.
Species:
H. peploides
Binomial name
Honckenya peploides
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Adenarium marinum Gray
    • Adenarium maritimum Raf.
    • Adenarium peploides Raf.
    • Alsine peploides Crantz
    • Ammodenia maritima (Raf.) E.P.Bicknell
    • Ammodenia peploides (L.) Rupr.
    • Ammodenia peploides var. diffusa (Hornem.) Porsild
    • Ammodenia peploides subsp. maritima (Raf.) W.Stone
    • Ammonalia peploides (L.) Desv.
    • Arenaria littoralis Salisb.
    • Arenaria peploides L.
    • Arenaria peploides var. diffusa Hornem.
    • Arenaria peploides f. lamoureuxii Lepage
    • Arenaria portulacea Lam.
    • Arenaria sitchensis D.Dietr.
    • Cerastium succulentum Crantz
    • Halianthus peploides Fr.
    • Holosteum succulentum L.
    • Honckenya diffusa (Hornem.) Á.Löve
    • Honckenya frigida Pobed.
    • Honckenya maritima (Raf.) Raf.
    • Honckenya peploides var. diffusa (Hornem.) Ostenf.
    • Honckenya peploides var. latifolia Fenzl
    • Merckia peploides G.Don
    • Minuartia peploides (L.) Hiern
    • Minuartia peploides var. diffusa Mattf.
    • Minuartia peploides subsp. latifolia (Fenzl) Mattf.
    • Minuartia peploides var. typica Mattf.

Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada),[2] is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort,[3] and sea purslane.[4] The scientific name is often spelled "Honkenya", and is named after the German botanist Gerhard August Honckeny (or Honkeny).[5] This plant has a circumboreal distribution.

The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white pentamerous flowers with 10 stamens in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils.[6] The fruit capsule opens in three valves.

  1. ^ "Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  2. ^ Integrated taxonomic information system (ITIS). (2009). Retrieved August/04, 2010
  3. ^ Nowick, Elaine (2014). Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants Volume I: Historical Names (paperback). Lulu.com. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-60962-058-5.
  4. ^ Warren L. Wagner, "Honckenya Ehrhart, Neues Mag. Aerzte. 5: 206. 1783.", Flora of North America
  5. ^ Le Roy Abrams & Roxana Stinchfield Ferris (1923). Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae, buckwheats to kramerias. An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States. Vol. 2. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804700047.
  6. ^ New Flora of the British Isles, Clive Stace, 2005, Cambridge University Press