Silene succulenta, Forskal

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 : 170

68. S. succulenta Forskâl , Fl. Aegypt. lxvi & 89 (1775)

(inch S. Corsica DC. ).

Fleshy perennial with woody stock and numerous procumbent or ascending stems, clothed throughout with dense viscid glandular pubescence (and therefore always with adhering sand-grains). Leaves obovate or oblanceolate. Flowers large, solitary or paired (rarely 3 or more), in axils of leafy bracts. Calyx 15-20 mm, narrowly davate, with conspicuous greenish or reddish veins. Petal-limb bifid, white; claw long-exserted; coronal scales conspicuously toothed. Capsule c. 10 mm, broadly oblong, equalling the deflexed-hairy carpophore. Maritime sands. Corse, Sardegna, Kriti. Co Cr Sa.

Plants from Corse and Sardegna have smaller leaves and rather shorter, more obtuse calyx-teeth than the typical plant, which occurs in Kriti; they have been distinguished as subsp. Corsica (DC.) Nyman , Consp. 92 (1878).