Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv. (1811)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Agrostemma coronaria L., Sp. Pl. (1753 [436])
- ≡ Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr. (1792)
Description
Whole plant densely covered in long woolly silvery hairs. Flowering stems erect, 30–100 cm tall. Basal and lower stem lvs loosely tufted, oblanceolate, acute, 10–25 × (1.5)–2–4 cm, gradually tapering to long petiole; upper lvs ovate, acute, sessile, amplexicaul, becoming smaller above. Infl. a (3)–7–15-flowered dichasium; pedicels (3)–5–12 cm long; bracts ovate-acuminate, 1–4 cm long. Calyx bell-shaped, 15–20 mm long, 10-veined; teeth triangular, acute. Petals purplish pink, rarely white; claw c. = calyx; limb spreading, entire or shallowly emarginate, 1–1.5 cm long. Capsule narrowly ovoid; carpophore c. 2 mm long. Seeds dull grey-brown, reniform-oblong, warty, c. 1.2 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Bibliography
Greuter, W. 1995: Silene (Caryophyllaceae) in Greece: a subgeneric and sectional classification. Taxon 44(4): 543–581.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J.; Brownsey, P.J. 1995: Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additonal notes 1988–1993. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 151–182. [as Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.]
