Silene behen, L.

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 : 177

129. S. behen L. , Sp. PI. 418 (1753)

(inch S. reinholdii Heldr. ).

Whole plant glabrous; stems 15-20 cm, simple or branched, rather stout, erect or ascending. Cauline leaves glaucous, usually imbricate. Inflorescence a lax dichasium; lowest pair of inter­ nodes of fruiting inflorescence 5-10 cm; nextpair also long; flowers not overlapping; pedicels stout, usually shorter than calyx. Calyx 11—17 mm, ovoid in fruit, whitish, with reddish anastomosingveins above; teeth ovate, obtuse; petal-limb 3- 6 mm, pink. Capsule 9-10 mm, ovoid; carpophore 1 -2 mm, very stout. Seeds c. 1 - 5 mm, reniform; faces concavo-convex, strongly tuberculate-ridged; back wide, plane or slightly convex, with 4 rows of acute, conical tubercles. C. & E. Mediterranean region. Cr Gr It Sa Si Tu.