Silene guicciardii, Boiss. & Heldr.

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 : 165

22. S. guicciardii Boiss. & Heldr. in Boiss., loc. cit. (1859).

Densely caespitose; flowering-stems 15-30 cm, numerous, erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, glabrous. Inflorescencebranches with 1-3 flowers; pedicels very short. Calyx c. 12 mm, glabrous. Petals white, with linear lobes. Capsule c. 10 mm; carpophore 2-3- 5 mm. Mountain rocks. • C. Greece (Parnassos). Gr.

Closely related to S. marschallii C. A. Meyer , Verz. Pfi. Cauc. 214 (1831) from S.W. Asia, and perhaps better treated as a subspecies; typical S. marschallii differs mainly in its taller habit, its wider more or less pubescent basal leaves and its usually pubescent calyx.