Family |
Caryophyllaceae
Silene schlumbergeri (Sensu lato)
Boiss.
Leb. Syr.
Silene schlumbergeri Boiss. (sensu lato)
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, p. 505; 1966)
Description
Life-form & habit: Perennial herb, 10–40 cm tall, glabrous and many-stemmed. Stems erect, rigid, slender and leafy, bearing one, rarely two flowers.
Leaves: Linear-setaceous, erect, rolled and acute.
Inflorescence & flowers: Bract very short; pedicel approximately one-third the calyx length. Calyx about 10 mm long, elongated-obconical, glabrous, with purple veins interconnected toward the apex. Calyx teeth triangular-lanceolate, acute, narrowly white-margined. Petal blades white, divided into two lobes for approximately one-third their length.
Fruit: Capsule oblong, longer than the carpophore. Seeds rough-tuberculate, flat on the back and slightly convex on the face.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Qaa (sensu lato).
Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon, precise locality unspecified.
⚠️ Taxonomic note:
The morphological description above follows Mouterde’s treatment of Silene schlumbergeri in the strict sense. The pubescent Qaa plants are treated here as sensu lato. See Silene schlumbergeri — Taxonomic note for a detailed discussion.