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|accepted_name=Arenaria pseudofrigida
|accepted_authority=(Ostenfeld & Dahl) Schischkin & Knorring in V. L. Komarov et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in V. L. Komarov et al., Fl. URSS
|place=6: 537. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria ciliata subsp. pseudofrigida
|authority=Ostenfeld & Dahl
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arenaria ciliata var. pseudofrigida
|authority=(Ostenfeld & Dahl) B. Boivin
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae;Arenaria;Arenaria pseudofrigida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arenaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arenaria pseudofrigida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 52
|treatment_page=page 55
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, forming cushions or mats. <b>Taproots</b> filiform to somewhat thickened. <b>Stems</b> 20–40+, procumbent, green, 3–14 cm; internodes terete to angular, 1/2–1+ times as long as leaves, shiny, pubescent in lines or throughout, hairs retrorsely curved. <b>Leaves</b> connate basally, with scarious sheath 0.2–0.3 mm, sessile; blade 1-veined (prominent proximally), oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–6 × 0.8–1.8 mm, succulent, margins thickened, minutely scarious-granular, ± shiny, ciliate in proximal 1/2, apex ± obtuse, sometimes pustulate, glabrous; axillary leaf clusters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, open, leafy, 1–4-flowered cymes in distal leaf axils. <b>Pedicels</b> erect or nodding in fruit, 2–12 mm, retrorsely pubescent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals green or distally purple, 3-veined (2 lateral veins 1/2 times as long as midvein), sometimes keeled, narrowly lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate), 3–4 mm, to ca. 5 mm in fruit, apex ± acute, not pustulate, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular; petals obovate, 5–8 mm, 12/3–2 times as long as sepals, apex acute to rounded. <b>Capsules</b> tightly enclosed by calyx, narrowly ellipsoid to cylindric, 3–5 mm, ca. equaling sepals. <b>Seeds</b> 15–20, black to reddish brown, reniform, compressed, 0.8–0.9 mm, shiny, low-tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Open, dry to slightly moist sand or gravel
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Greenland;Europe.
|discussion=<p>We follow B. Jonsell (2001) in treating Arenaria pseudofrigida as one of several arctic species that formerly were included in A. ciliata Linnaeus, a species now considered restricted to alpine regions of central Europe.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Arenaria pseudofrigida
|author=
|authority=(Ostenfeld & Dahl) Schischkin & Knorring in V. L. Komarov et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arenaria ciliata var. pseudofrigida
|basionyms=Arenaria ciliata subsp. pseudofrigida
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Open, dry to slightly moist sand or gravel
|elevation=0-50 m
|distribution=Greenland;Europe.
|reference=None
|publication title=in V. L. Komarov et al., Fl. URSS
|publication year=1936
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_110.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Alsinoideae
|genus=Arenaria
|species=Arenaria pseudofrigida
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