Moenchia Ehrh.
Glabrous annual rosette herbs. Lvs opposite, exstipulate, linear to oblong-lanceolate. Infl. a few-flowered long-pedicellate cyme, or fls solitary; bracts leaflike; epicalyx 0. Sepals 4-5, free. Petals 4-5, white, entire or emarginate; coronal scales 0. Stamens 4-10. Styles (3)-4-(5). Fr. a narrow-ovoid or cylindric capsule, dehiscing by twice as many teeth as the styles; carpophore 0. Seeds many, reniform, papillate, not winged.
3 spp., W., C. and Mediterranean Europe. Naturalised sp. 1.
