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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Silene linearis Decne.
Nomencalture
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Family: CaryophyllaceaeGenus: Silene
Species:
Silene linearis Decne.
SUMMARY
♦ Silene linearis Decne., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 2, 3: 276 (1835).
Annual or short-lived perennial herb, puberulent below, glabracent –viscid bove, erect branched stems, 20-50 cm tall. Leaves 1.5-3.5 x 0.15-0.3 cm, the basal linear to linear -elleptic, apex, sessile, the upper smaller narrowly linear. Flowers 1.3-1.6cm in lax dichasial corymbose cymes. Pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm. Calyx 1.2-1.5 cm, longer in fruit, 10-nerved, calyc teeth ver short, acute ciliated. Petals1-1.5 cm long, white or pink, limb bilobed. Carpophore c. 5-7 mm, glabrous. Capsule 6-8 mm, ovoid-cylinderical. Seeds c. 1 mm long, reniform-globose, wrinkled brown. Fl. Per.: April-May.