Silene duralii

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Caespitose perennial, bearing sterile shoots with simple and tufted leaves. Flowering stems 22-34 cm tall, slender, terete, c. 1-1.5 mm diameter, canescent below, viscid above, greenish and densely leafy at the base, much branched from the base. Basal leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 10-32 × 1-3 mm , canescent and hispidulous, acuminate. Cauline leaves gradually decrease towards flowering part, 8-30 × 1-2 mm; lower cauline leaves are similar to basal leaves; middle and upper cauline leaves linear-subulate, acute to acuminate, pubescent. Nodes swollen; internodes 1.3-3.5 cm long below, up to 7.3 cm long above. Inflorescence in compound dichasia or in a widely branched compound dichasium, viscid, glaucous. Bracts 3-6 mm, acuminate, with scarious margin and ciliate; bracteoles 2-3 mm long, acuminate, with scarious margin and ciliate. Pedicels 2-10 mm long, rarely viscid or glabrous. Calyx 7-9 mm long, glabrous, purplish, 10 veined, veins definite; teeth 1.2-2.5 mm long, ovate-obtuse, with usually minutely ciliate margin. Petals 10-14 mm long, longer than calyx, pink, limb 6-7 mm long, deeply bifid, lobes 2.5-4 mm long, obtuse; coronal scales present, 0.5-1 mm long; claw ciliate, 6-7 mm long, staminal filaments glabrous; styles 3. Capsule ovoid, exserted from the calyx, 6-11 mm long. Anthophore glabrous, 1.5-2 mm long. Fl. & Fr. 6-7, rocky places, mountain steppe, 1750- 1770 m.

Endemic.