Arenaria saponarioides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Caryophyllaceae
Tribus: Arenarieae
Genus: Arenaria
Species: Arenaria saponarioides

Name

Arenaria saponarioides Boiss. & Balansa in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 6: 35 (1859).

• Typus: [W Anatolia, Phrygia] "bords de la route conduisant d'Ouchak & Yachamichlar-Keui", 6 June 1857, Balansa 1297 (Holotype: G-BOIS; isotypes: K, S).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Arenaria macrosepala var. minor Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 703 (1867).
  • Arenaria macrosepala subsp. saponarioides (Boiss. & Balansa) Holmboe, Bergens Mus. Skr., ser. 2, 1(2): 69 (1914).
• Heterotypic
  • Arenaria nana Boiss. & Heldr. in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 103 (1849), nom. illeg.
    • Typus: [Greece, E Kriti] "rarissima in cacumine Avthenti montium Lassiti", 20 May 1846, Heldreich (Holotype: G-BOIS; isotype: K).
    • Arenaria boissieri Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 30 (1893).
    • Arenaria saponarioides subsp. boissieri (Pax) McNeill, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 24: 289 (1963).

References

Primary references

• Boissier, P.E. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum nonnullis Europaeis Boreali-Africanisque additis ser. 2, no. 6. 148 pp., Lipsiae [Leipzig]: B. Hermann / Parisiis [Paris]: J.-B. Baillière. MDZ Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2026. Arenaria saponarioides in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2026 Feb 15. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2026. Arenaria saponarioides. Published online. Accessed: 15 Feb 2026. Reference page.
• Hassler, M. 2026. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Arenaria saponarioides. Accessed: 15 Feb 2026. Reference page. 
• Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Arenaria saponarioides in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2026 Feb 15.Reference page.