Stellaria L.
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Stellaria is a genus of about 90-120 species flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include stitchwort and chickweed.
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Food use[edit]
Chickweeds are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Angle Shades, Heart and Dart, Riband Wave, Setaceous Hebrew Character and the Coleophora case-bearers C. coenosipennella (feeds exclusively on Stellaria spp), C. lineolea (recorded on S. graminea), C. lithargyrinella (recorded on S. holostea), C. solitariella (feeds exclusively on S. holostea) and C. striatipennella.
Uses[edit]
Some species, including Stellaria media, are used as leaf vegetables, often raw in salads.
Stellaria media is widespread in North America from the Brooks Range in Alaska to all points south within North America. There are several closely related plants referred to as chickweed, but which lack the culinary and medicinal properties of plants in the genus Stellaria. Plants in the genus Cerastium are very similar in appearance to Stellaria and are in the same family (Carophyllaceae). Stellaria media can be easily distinguished from all other members of this family by examining the stems. Stellaria has fine hairs on only one side of the stem in a single band. Other members of the family Carophyllaceae which resemble Stellaria have hairs uniformly covering the entire stem. This is a favored food of finches and many other seed-eating birds.
Selected species[edit]
References[edit]
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, Gregory L. Tilford, ISBN 0-87842-359-1
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Stellaria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.[2]
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Description
Shells medium-sized to large (diameter of base without attachments 65–128 mm; height of shell 48–70 mm), rather depressed to moderately high-spired, widely umbilicate, with wide peripheral flange (30-40% of total diameter at base) which is simple in some species or is digitate or divided into numerous long, hollow, narrow, parallel-sided spines. Ventral side of peripheral flange non-porcellanous. Foreign objects usually small to very small covering less than 30% of dorsal surface.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Stellaria include:[3]
- Stellaria chinensis (Philippi, 1841)[4]
- Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909)[5]
- Stellaria lamberti (Souverbie, 1871)[6]
- Stellaria solaris (Linnaeus, 1764)[7] (type species of Stellaria)
- Stellaria testigera (Bronn, 1831)[8]
- Stellaria testigera digitata von Martens, 1878
- Stellaria testigera profunda Ponder, 1983
References
- ^ Schmidt (1832). In: Möller. Isis (Oken) 1832: 130.
- ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Stellaria Möller, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206853 on 2010-08-07
- ^ a b Kreipl, K. & Alf, A. (1999): Recent Xenophoridae. 148 pp. incl. 28 color plts. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, ISBN 3-925919-26-0.
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria chinensis (Philippi, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468047 on 2010-08-07
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468048 on 2010-08-07
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria lamberti (Souverbie, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468049 on 2010-08-07
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria solaris (Linnaeus, 1764). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217332 on 2010-08-07
- ^ WoRMS (2010). Stellaria testigera (Bronn, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468050 on 2010-08-07
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Annual or perennial herbs. Stipules 0. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence of terminal dichasial cymes. Flowers usually 5-merous. Sepals free. Petals white, very deeply 2-fid. Stamens 10, or fewer. Styles 3. Capsule opening by 6 valves.
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Devescovinids (28-45 µm) with three anterior flagella and a thick recurrent flagellum, cord-like, longer than the body. Cresta slender; nucleus like a transverse open ring; parabasal with a proximal V-shaped part supporting 4 to 7 small branches or parabasalies. Axostyle traversing the nucleus, with a terminal projection. Spirochetes on the anterior and posterior ends. One species, A. nucleoflexa, occurs in several species of Cryptotermes (GrassÃ, 1952a) (described under the name Stellaria in Grassà and Hollande, 1950 and as Foaina nucleoflexa in Kirby, 1942b). Type species: Astronympha nucleoflexa (Kirby, 1942).
Depth range based on 40 specimens in 3 taxa.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 28 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 24 - 125
Temperature range (°C): 21.719 - 24.522
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.146 - 1.643
Salinity (PPS): 35.555 - 35.652
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.676 - 4.872
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.169 - 0.246
Silicate (umol/l): 1.448 - 1.584
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 24 - 125
Temperature range (°C): 21.719 - 24.522
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.146 - 1.643
Salinity (PPS): 35.555 - 35.652
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.676 - 4.872
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.169 - 0.246
Silicate (umol/l): 1.448 - 1.584
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Foodplant / miner
larva of Amauromyza flavifrons mines leaf of Stellaria
Foodplant / gall
Brachycolus stellariae causes gall of leaf of Stellaria
Foodplant / gall
Cecidophyopsis atrichus causes gall of leaf of Stellaria
Animal / pathogen
Rhizoctonia anamorph of Helicobasidium purpureum infects root of Stellaria
Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Hypera arator grazes on flower of Stellaria
Foodplant / gall
larva of Macrolabis stellariae causes gall of leaf of Stellaria
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / open feeder
larva of Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata grazes on leaf of Stellaria
Other: major host/prey
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:248
Specimens with Sequences:382
Specimens with Barcodes:306
Species:37
Species With Barcodes:36
Public Records:111
Public Species:21
Public BINs:0