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|accepted_name=Cardionema
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=3: 372. 1828
|year=1828
}}
|common_names=Sandcarpet
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae;Cardionema
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cardionema]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kardio, heart, and nema, thread, alluding to the obcordate anthers and slender filaments
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 5
|treatment_page=page 45
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Taproots</b> often stout. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, much-branched proximally, terete to angular. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, not connate, connected by thickened margins from which stipules arise, sessile; stipules 2 per node, silvery, lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to irregularly fimbriate, apex 2-lobed; blade prominently 1-veined, needlelike, not succulent, apex spinose. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, 1–3-flowered clusters; bracts paired, resembling stipules, smaller. <b>Flowers</b> sessile; hypanthium cup-shaped, not abruptly expanded distally; sepals 5, distinct, olive-green, oblong to obovate, 1.2–2.8 mm (excluding awns), indurate, herbaceous, margins whitish, scarious, apex spinose, prominently hooded, awned, hoods projecting inward and enclosing developing fruit, awns arising from near apex, widely divergent, very stout, spinose, 3 awns and associated sepals well developed, alternating with 2 reduced sepals; nectaries not apparent; stamens 3–5; filaments distinct to base; staminodes 5, adnate basally with alternating filaments, ovate-triangular, apex acuminate; styles 2, distinct, subcapitate, 0.2 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2, subterminal, obscurely papillate (50×). <b>Utricles</b> ellipsoid to cylindric, teeth absent, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> tan with red spot at hilum, narrowly ovate, not compressed, smooth, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo peripheral, straight to slightly curved.</span><!--

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|distribution=Coastal w North America;South America (Chile;Ecuador;Peru).
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Cardionema
|author=Ronald L. Hartman
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Coastal w North America;South America (Chile;Ecuador;Peru).
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1828
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Paronychioideae
|genus=Cardionema
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