Silene pseudatocion

Desfontaines

Fl. Atlant. 1: 353. 1798.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 200. Mentioned on page 170.

Plants annual; taproot slender. Stems straggling to erect, much-branched, elongate, 20–70 cm, sparsely retrorse-puberulent. Leaves 2 per node, sessile with spatulate, broad, ciliate base, blade oblanceolate, 1.3–5 cm × 4–15 mm, apex acuminate, glabrous or sparsely setose. Inflorescences cymose, open, compound, pedunculate; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 3–15 mm, apex acuminate; peduncle ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular. Pedicels ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular. Flowers: calyx prominently 10-veined, clavate, with long, slender tube surrounding carpophore, 17–20 × 4–6 mm, veins parallel, green or purple with purple stipitate-glands, with pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins ciliate, apex acute; corolla bright pink, clawed, claw slightly longer than calyx, limb obovate, unlobed, ca. 1 cm, appendages 2, oblong, 2 mm, entire; stamens included in tip of calyx-tube; styles 3, exserted. Capsules ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth; carpophore 9–10 mm, pubescent. Seeds dull and very dark-brown, almost globose, inrolled like a clenched fist, 1–1.3 mm, sides with radiating wrinkles, finely tuberculate abaxially. 2n = 24 (Balearic Islands).


Phenology: Flowering spring.
Habitat: Neglected gardens, roadsides, waste places
Elevation: 0-500 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., Europe (Balearic Islands), n Africa

Discussion

Silene pseudatocion is occasionally grown in gardens and rarely occurs as a weed in California. It is similar to another garden escape, S. pendula, but it differs in having a calyx tube with a very long, slender base and unlobed petals.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Silene pseudatocion"
awned +  and not hooded +
setose +  and glabrous +
acute;acuminate;acuminate +
John K. Morton +
Desfontaines +
spatulate +
dentate +, emarginate to 2-fid +  and entire +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> - 5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> +
oblanceolate +
rarely +  and not succulent +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> - 1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> +
lanceolate +
reduced +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> - 1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> +
scarious +  and herbaceous +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> - 2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> +
clavate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> - 0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> +
slightly longer +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> - 1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> +
slightly longer +
conspicuous +
dissected +  and variously--shaped +
dish--shaped +
expanded +
Calif. +, Europe - Balearic Islands +  and n Africa +
0-500 m +
peripheral +
subsessile +  and sessile +
conspicuous +
glandular-pubescent +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
stalked +  and simple +
Neglected gardens, roadsides, waste places +
pedunculate +, compound +, open +  and cymose +
whorled +  and opposite +
connate +
conspicuous +
unlobed;obovate +
purplish +  and green +
1 - ? +  and 4 - ? +
lanceolate +
swollen +
3 +  and 5 +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
stipitate-glandular +
stipitate-glandular +
off-white tinged with purple +, dusky purple +, scarlet +, pink +  and white +
fugacious +
Flowering spring. +
Fl. Atlant. +
dark-brown +
papillate +  and tuberculate +
globose +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> - 0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> +
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 /> +
tuberculate +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
fewer +  and 10 +
much-branched +
prostrate +, decumbent +  and sprawling +
straggling;erect +
retrorse-puberulent +
elongate +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> - 70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br /> +
[30 +, 4 +, 5 +  and 3 +
papillate +
distinct +
filiform +
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 pseudatocion +
species +
divided +
10-30-veined +
purplish +, whitish +  and green +
inflated +, terete +, cylindric +  and campanulate urceolate or clavate +
membranous +
3 - ? +  and 5 - ? +
stoloniferous +, rhizomatous +  and taprooted +
pubescence of simple hairs or stalked glands +  and glabrous +