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A type of flowering plant

Silene flavescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Silene
Species: S. flavescens
Binomial name
Silene flavescens
Waldst. & Kit. (1804)
Subspecies

4; see text

Silene flavescens stub flower leaf arrangement. Palmately compound leaf.

Silene flavescens is a species of flowering plant part of the genus Silene, family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula and Hungary. It is an herbaceous species belonging to the tribe Sileneae.

Description

They can be found in the serpentine areas of the Rhodope Mountains. They are native to Mt Orvilos on the southern Green flank of the mountain. It also appears on the Bulgarian side of Mt Slavjanka. The stub has been collected in northern most Greece since 1977. Their flowering period is from mid-April to early May. Petal limb ranges from 3 to 6 millimeters. The length of the anthophore is between 1 and 2 millimeters. The plant lacks glandular hairs and the stamens are included.

Subspecies

Four species are accepted.

  • Silene flavescens subsp. dictaea (Rech.f.) Greuter – eastern Crete
  • Silene flavescens subsp. flavescens – Balkan Peninsula and Hungary
  • Silene flavescens subsp. stojanovii (Panov) Delip. – Bulgaria
  • Silene flavescens subsp. thessalonica (Boiss. & Heldr.) Nyman – Albania, Bulgaria, mainland Greece, and the East Aegean Islands.

Life cycle

Mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes are inherited maternally.

Terrain of Silene flavescens stub that is mountainous and rocky
Leaves follow an alternate leaf pattern. A single leaf rising from node.

References

  1. ^ "Silene flavescens Waldst. & Kit. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  2. "Catalogue of Life - 2014 Annual Checklist :: Species details". www.catalogueoflife.org.
  3. "Silene flavescens". www.cabi.org. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  4. "Earth.com". Earth.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  5. Greuter, Werner (1995). "Studies in Greek Caryophylloideae: Agrostemma, Silene, and Vaccaria". Willdenowia. 25 (1): 105–142. ISSN 0511-9618. JSTOR 3996977.
  6. Pavlova, Dolja (2007-12-07). "A new species of Aethionema (Brassicaceae) from the Bulgarian flora: A NEW SPECIES OF AETHIONEMA". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 155 (4): 533–540. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00722.x.
  7. Sloan, Daniel B.; Oxelman, Bengt; Rautenberg, Anja; Taylor, Douglas R. (2009-10-31). "Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9 (1): 260. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-260. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 2777880. PMID 19878576.
Taxon identifiers
Silene flavescens
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