Silene samia

Annual, minutely pubescent below, pubescent-viscidulous in middle, viscidulous above. Stem 12-15 cm, alternately and dichotomously branched. Lower leaves spathulate, mucronulate, 1-4 x 0,5-1,5 cm.; middle leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, 5-15 x 3-4 mm; bracts very small, lanceolate. Inflorescence 2-5-flowered, forming a lax irregular dichasium. Calyx ovate, 5,5-7 mm, viscid, not umbilicate at base, distinctly veined; teeth ovate, acute with membranous margin. Anthophore very short, 0,5-1 mm. Petal rose; claw narrowly cuneate, membranous, hyaline, 3-4 mm; lamina bilobed, 1,5-2mm, laciniae 0,5 mm; corona absent. Capsule ovoid, 6-7 mm, not or scarcely exceeding calyx. Seeds reniform, dorsally and ventrally plano-convex, tuberculate. 2n= 24, Fl. 5-6. Cliffs and mobile gravelly slopes, 350-1000m.