Silene graeca, Boiss. & Spruner

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 : 176

126. S. graeca Boiss. & Spruner in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 1 (1): 36 (1843).

Whole plant glabrous; stems (10-)20-40(-60) cm, usually branched, erect. Leaves glaucous; cauline dense but not usually overlapping. Inflorescence dichotomously branched at base with 1 alar flower and 2 equal, raceme-like, monochasial cymes; pedicels very short; flowers not overlapping. Calyx 9- 15 mm, oblong-subclavate in fruit; teeth ovate, obtuse, usually greenish. Petals white or flesh-coloured; limb 5-10 mm, bifid. Capsule 6-9 mm, ovoid-oblong; carpophore 2-4 mm, stout. Seeds 1 -1-3 mm, reniform; faces slightly concave, tuberculate- striate; back very wide, more or less plane, with 4 or 5 rows of low rounded tubercles. W. part of Balkan peninsula. Al GrJu.