Silene douglasii var. oraria

(M. Peck) C. L. Hitchcock & Maguire

Revis. N. Amer. Silene, 40. 1947.

Endemic
Basionym: Silene oraria M. Peck Torreya 32: 148. 1932
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 183. Mentioned on page 182.

Leaf-blades oblanceolate, 2–5 (–8) cm × 3–13 mm × 0.3–0.7 mm, fleshy. Inflorescences eglandular. Flowers: calyx strongly suffused with purple, strongly inflated, (4–) 7–10 (–12) mm diam. at anthesis, eglandular; petal limb 5–11 mm wide, often with lateral tooth on each side.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Exposed coastal bluffs
Elevation: 0-100 m

Discussion

Variety oraria is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"fine" is not a number.

awned +  and not hooded +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
blunt;acute +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
John K. Morton +
(M. Peck) C. L. Hitchcock & Maguire +
Silene oraria +
dentate +, emarginate to 2-fid +  and entire +
spatulate +
rarely +  and not succulent +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
lanceolate +
reduced +
scarious +  and herbaceous +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
suffused with purple +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
with few stipitate-glands +, glabrous +  and retrorse-puberulent +
inflated +
constricted +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
ovoid-ellipsoid +
11/3 times calyx +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
slightly longer +
conspicuous +
greenish and occasionally tinged with dark-pink +  and creamy white +
dissected +  and variously--shaped +
dish--shaped +
expanded +
0-100 m +
peripheral +
subsessile +  and sessile +
conspicuous +
glandular-pubescent +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
stalked +  and simple +
Exposed coastal bluffs +
grayish white +
retrorse-puberulent +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
sessile +  and petiolate +
whorled +  and opposite +
connate +
conspicuous +
2-lobed;obovate-lanceolate +
4mm +  and 11mm +
purplish +  and green +
rounded +, oblong +  and ovate-triangular +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
entire +  and erose +
verrucate-tuberculate +  and papillate +
membranous +
elliptic to linear +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
1.5mm +  and 13mm +
swollen +
3 +  and 5 +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
off-white tinged with purple +, dusky purple +, scarlet +, pink +  and white +
fugacious +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
Revis. N. Amer. Silene, +
rusty brown +
papillate +  and tuberculate +
reniform +
2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
persistent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
fewer +  and 10 +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
prostrate +, decumbent +  and sprawling +
subglabrous +
several;many +
slender +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
[30 +, 4 +, 5 +  and 3 +
papillate +
distinct +
3 +  and 5 +
filiform +
1-11/2 times corolla claw +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Anotites +, Atocion +, Coronaria +, Gastrolychnis +, Lychnis +, Melandrium +, Physolychnis +, Viscaria +  and Wahlbergella +
Silene douglasii var. oraria +
Silene douglasii +
variety +
ascending;spreading +
3 (?) +  and 5 (?) +
divided +
10-30-veined +
purplish +, whitish +  and green +
inflated +, terete +, cylindric +  and campanulate urceolate or clavate +
membranous +
3 (?) +  and 5 (?) +
connate +
stoloniferous +, rhizomatous +  and taprooted +
pubescence of simple hairs or stalked glands +  and glabrous +