Silene hamzaoglui

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Perennial, with sterile shoots at the base. Flowering stems 30-55 cm tall, erect, 1.5-3 mm diameter, hirsute below, viscid above, densely leafy at the base. Basal leaves petiolate, linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, 3-17 × 0.2-0.9 cm , glabrescent to retrorsely hirsute on both surfaces, apex acute, base attenuate, 3-veined. Lower cauline leaves sessile, smaller than basal leaves, 3-9.5 × 0.3-0.9 cm; middle and upper cauline leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-6.5 × 0.2-0.5 cm, apex acute-acuminate, margin long ciliate at the base. Nodes 2-5, swollen; internodes 2-10 cm long. Infl orescence lax compound dichasia, 8-27-flowered. Bracts similar to upper cauline leaves, 0.7-3.5 cm long,   sparsely canescent with scarious margin; bracteoles similar to bracts but smaller, 5-8 mm long.   Pedicels 3-8 mm long, viscid or glabrous. Calyx 10-veined, 6-10 mm long, sparsely canescent along on the veins, veins ± defi nite, purplish-pink; teeth ovate-obtuse with scarious and ciliate margin, 1.2-2 mm long. Petals 10-11 mm long, pink; limb 5-6 mm long, apex emarginate, lobes 0.5-0.7 mm long, coronal scales present, 0.7-1 mm long; claw 5-5.5 mm long, margin ciliate. Filaments glabrous. Capsule ± ovoid, 7- 11 mm long, exserted from the calyx; styles 3. Anthophore 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous. Seed semi-reniform, 1.7-2 × 0.7-1 mm, ornamentation  granulate. Fl. & Fr. 5-6, calcareous rocky places, 1140-1180 m.

Endemic.