Silene biappendiculata Ehrh. ex Rohrb. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Silene canopica Boiss., it is an annual, procumbent, simple or dichotomously branched herb with ascending shoots and crisped spreading hairs. Leaves small, oblong or oblong-lanceolate to ± linear, 2-3 times shorter than the calyx, connate-vaginate, membranous and ciliate at the base, apicatly ± acute-apiculate. Flowers white or pinkish, in terminal scorpioid cymes; pedicels erect, as long as leaves; bracts ovate, acute-acuminate, densely ciliate. Calyx tube cylindrical at anthesis, c. 9 mm long, clavate, umbilicate and not contracted at the apex in fruit, 10-nerved, whitish appressed-hairy, rarely glabrous; teeth ovate-lanceolate, densely crisped ciliate, obtuse. Petals limb bifid to c. half into linear, obtuse lobes; claws hardly exerted, glabrous; coronal scales ± connate, obtuse. Stamens 10, filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous, shorter than the stipe. Capsule ovoid, as long as to shorter than the retrorse hairy carpophore. Seeds reniform, faces slightly concave, narrowly acutely grooved on back, striate.
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