Family: Caryophyllaceae
Silene dichotoma
Citation:
Ehrh., Beitr. Naturk. 7:143 (1792).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Forked (or two-branch) catchfly.
Description:
Annual or biennial with stout puberulent to hispid stems to c. 1 m high, branched dichotomously at the summit; leaves spathulate to lanceolate, the lower with long petioles; cauline leaves lanceolate, white-villous with long septate hairs.
Flowers spreading or drooping in several unilateral racemes; pedicels all very short; upper bracts small, ovate, scarious on their margins; calyx 13-17 mm long, swollen in fruit, with 10 prominent green nerves, sparsely and shortly pubescent between the nerves; teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute; petals deeply 2-fid, white or less often pink, 4-8 mm long; filaments and styles very long-exserted; styles 3.
Capsule ovoid, on a very short carpophore; seeds 1-1.4 mm long, blackish-brown.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL. Native to Europe and western Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Jan. (2 collections).
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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