Silene Silene, All.

145. S. nicaeensis All. View in CoL , Mélang. Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin (Mise. Taur.) 5: 88 (1774).

Whole plant hirsute; stems 10- 40 cm, erect, stout, usually branched, viscid. Lower leaves linear-spathulate to oblong-lanceolate; cauline linear-lanceolate to linear, often curved. Flowers on pedicels equalling or shorter than calyx, 2 to 8 together in sessile or shortly stalked subcapitate dichasia which are arranged, the lower remote, the upper overlapping, on long axes in a simple or branched inflorescence. Calyx 10-13 mm, subclavate in fruit; teeth ovate, obtuse. Petal-limb very deeply bifid, with oblong-linear lobes, white or reddish-pink. Capsule 6-9 mm, ovoid-oblong; carpophore 3-5-5 mm, pubescent. Seeds 0-9-1 - 1 mm, reniform, dark brown; faces flat, finely striate; back narrow, more or less deeply grooved. Coastal sands. Mediterranean region, mainly in the west; Portugal. BI Co Ga Gr Hs It Lu Sa Si.