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''Scleranthus'', the knawels, are a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It includes 12 species native to Europe, Siberia, western Asia, north Africa, Ethiopia, New Guinea, and Australia. Species 12 species are accepted. *''Scleranthus annuus'' L. – German-knotweed, knawel or annual knawel, native to Africa, Europe, Asia and naturalised elsewhere. *''Scleranthus biflorus'' (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Hook.f. – knawel, cushion-bush or two-flowered knawel, native to Australia and New Zealand *''Scleranthus brockiei'' P.A.Will. – native to Australia and New Zealand *''Scleranthus delortii'' *''Scleranthus diander'' R.Br. – tufted knawel, native to Australia *''Scleranthus fasciculatus'' – native to Australia, introduced to New Zealand *''Scleranthus × intermedius'' *''Scleranthus minusculus'' F.Muell. – native to Australia *''Scleranthus perennis'' L. – perennial knawel *''Scleranthus pungens'' R.Br. – native to Australia *''Scleranthus singulif ...
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Scleranthus Uncinatus
''Scleranthus'', the knawels, are a genus of herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of ... plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It includes 12 species native to Europe, Siberia, western Asia, north Africa, Ethiopia, New Guinea, and Australia. Species 12 species are accepted. *''Scleranthus annuus'' L. – German-knotweed, knawel or annual knawel, native to Africa, Europe, Asia and naturalised elsewhere. *''Scleranthus biflorus'' (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Hook.f. – knawel, cushion-bush or two-flowered knawel, native to Australia and New Zealand *''Scleranthus brockiei'' P.A.Will. – native to Australia and New Zealand *''Scleranthus delortii'' *''Scleranthus diander'' R.Br. – tufted knawel, native to Australia *''Scleranthus fasciculatus'' – native to Austral ...
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Scleranthus Singuliflorus
''Scleranthus'', the knawels, are a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It includes 12 species native to Europe, Siberia, western Asia, north Africa, Ethiopia, New Guinea, and Australia. Species 12 species are accepted. *'' Scleranthus annuus'' L. – German-knotweed, knawel or annual knawel, native to Africa, Europe, Asia and naturalised elsewhere. *'' Scleranthus biflorus'' (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Hook.f. – knawel, cushion-bush or two-flowered knawel, native to Australia and New Zealand *'' Scleranthus brockiei'' P.A.Will. – native to Australia and New Zealand *'' Scleranthus delortii'' *'' Scleranthus diander'' R.Br. – tufted knawel, native to Australia *'' Scleranthus fasciculatus'' – native to Australia, introduced to New Zealand *'' Scleranthus × intermedius'' *'' Scleranthus minusculus'' F.Muell. – native to Australia *'' Scleranthus perennis'' L. – perennial knawel *'' Scleranthus pungens'' R.Br. – native to Australia *'' Scleranth ...
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Scleranthus Diander
''Scleranthus diander'' commonly known as tufted knawel, is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, it grows in eastern states of Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. It is a small, spreading herb with white or light green flowers. Description ''Scleranthus diander'' is a small, spreading, multi-stemmed perennial herb that forms a mat or with trailing stems and up to wide. The leaves are pale green, crowded, linear, triangular in cross-section, long, wide, smooth, more or less keeled and a pointed tip long. The pale green or white flowers are mostly sessile, obscure or on a botany long, and borne in clusters at the end of branches or in leaf axils. The bracts are sharply tipped, cream-coloured, usually longer than the flowers, calyx more or less pointed, spreading and mostly longer than the floral tube. Flowering occurs usually from October to January and the fruit is a ribbed nutlet, long and wide. Taxonomy ''Scleranthus diander'' was first formally ...
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Scleranthus Biflorus
''Scleranthus biflorus'' is a cushion-bush found in Australia and New Zealand. Other common names include the knawel and two-flowered knawel or twin-flower knawel. A common plant in grassland, particularly at higher altitudes. It may be in the form of a mat. Or a multi branched, spreading perennial herb. As of 2015, this species was under review, and new taxa were planned. Description A spreading, moss-like plant with dense, bright green, linear leaves about 4mm long. There are minute, double-headed green flowers in late spring. Propagation can be by division or by seed. The fungus ''Rhizoctonia ''Rhizoctonia'' is a genus of fungi in the family Ceratobasidiaceae. Species form thin, effused, corticioid basidiocarps (fruit bodies), but are most frequently found in their sterile, anamorph state. ''Rhizoctonia'' species are saprotrophic, ...'' can cause dead brown patches in this species. References Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of Tasmania Flora o ...
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Scleranthus Fasciculatus
''Scleranthus fasciculatus'', commonly known as spreading knawel, is a rare, spreading, non-woody herb found in the south-eastern states of Australia and introduced to New Zealand."Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants". University of Tasmania. 2019. Retrieved 27-03-2024. Threatened Species Section (2024). spreading knawel (Scleranthus fasciculatus): Species Management Profile for Tasmania's Threatened Species Link. https://www.threatenedspecieslink.tas.gov.au/Pages/Scleranthus-fasciculatus.aspx Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania. Accessed on 27/3/2024. The species is found in dry grassland habitats and requires the maintenance of inter-tussock spaces for its establishment and persistence. A number of anthropogenic factors have contributed to the species decline such as impacts from land clearing, road construction and maintenance, and herbicide application. Description ''Scleranthus fasciculatus'' is a prostrate spreading perennial herb. Stems are non-wood ...
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Scleranthus Perennis
''Scleranthus perennis'', the perennial knawel, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It grows on sandy, dry, acidic soils. It can grow up to 15 cm high and has white flowers of 2–5 mm. The plant used to be economically significant as the major host plant of the Polish cochineal Polish cochineal (''Porphyrophora polonica, Margarodes polonicus''), also known as Polish carmine scales (), is a scale insect formerly used to produce a crimson dye of the same name, colloquially known as "Saint John's blood". The larvae of ''P .... References Caryophyllaceae Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Caryophyllaceae-stub ...
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Scleranthus Annuus
''Scleranthus annuus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known throughout the rest of the temperate world as an introduced species and a common weed. It grows in many types of habitat, often in disturbed areas. Description ''Scleranthus annuus'' is an annual or biennial herb with low, much-branched spreading stems up to long growing from a taproot. The leaves are needle-like or linear in shape with sharp, stiff points. They are oppositely arranged in pairs about the stem and are fused together at the bases. Flowers occur in pairs or small clusters of up to five. The flowers lack petals but have bell-shaped calyces of green petal-shaped sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in ...
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