Stellaria longipes, Goldie

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 135

11. S. longipes Goldie , Edinb. Philos. Jour. 6: 327 (1822)

(? S. peduncularis Bunge ).

Creeping or caespitose perennial; stems up to 25 cm, usually ascending, laxly branched, quadrangular; sometimes with non-flowering branches in axils of upper leaves, but never with the condensed shoots typical of 12. Leaves linear-lanceolate, thin, very acute. Inflorescence usually several-flowered. Sepals 3-7 mm, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, not ciliate, glabrous; petals exceeding sepals. Ripe capsule l |- 2 times as long as sepals, dark brown or blackish; teeth straight. Spitsbergen and Kolguev. Rs (N) Sb. (Arctic Asia and America.)