Minuartia hamata
Minuartia hamata
Koruotu
Small robust annual, 5-15 cm. Stems usually branching from the base, finely puberulent. Leaves linear-setaceous, 3-5-veined. Inflorescence of very dense, ± distinct spherical clusters; bracts glabrous, almost as long as the clusters with a very broad membranous margin at base, apex becoming recurved in fruit; flowers all sessile, completely enclosed by the bracts, the uppermost in each cluster sterile and imperfect. Sepals 3,5-4 mm, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Petals 2-5, linear, c. 1/2 as long as sepals. Staminal glands 2-5, entire, quadrate, opposite the outer stamens. Capsule 1-seeded, apparently functionally indehiscent, the fruit clusters synaptospermous. Seeds 1,5 x 1 mm, pale straw-coloured. Fl. 4-6. Dry sandy soils, 300-2200 m.
Mediterranean area E to Turkestan and E. Iran.
