Silene articulata Viv., it is an annual, erect, up to 35 cm tall, ± hairy herb with articulated, often unbranched stem. Leaves sessile, lanceolate to lincur-lanceolate, above, oblanceolate-spathulate below, hispid-pubescent to glabrescent, ± connate vaginate at the base, ciliate on margins, obtuse to acute. Flowers pale-pink, 10-12 mm across, few-flowered monochasia, pedicels longer to shorter than calyx, relrorscly hairy; braets green, lanceolate, pubescent to glabrescent, ciliate on margins, acute. Calyx tube oblong-cylindrical at anthesis, 13-16 mm long, ovoid-sub globular to pyriform and not or hardly contracted at the apex in fruit, slightly contracted at the non-umbilicate base, 10-nerved, nerves with dimorphic hairs, shorter hairs appressed and long ones spreading, multicellular, articulate and c. 3 mm long; teeth lanceolate 3.5-4 mm long, scarious on margins, sparsely to densely ciliate. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, 4-5 mm long, 2-fid to c. 1/3-0.5 into oblong-obtuse lobes; claw white, not eltserled; coronal scales oblong, c. 2 mm long. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous; anthers linear-oblong, c. 1.5 mm long, purplish. Ovary ovoid, stipilate, slightly shorter than pubescent stipe, glabrous; styles filiform, included. Capsule ovoid, 10-12 mm long, included; carpophore c. 3 mm long, finely retrorse pubescent. Seed rounded reniform, much compressed, ± 2 mm long, with 2 undulate wings finely punctate-papillose
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