Silene conoidea L., it is an annual, erect, up to 60 cm tall, densely viscid-glandular herb. Stem unbranched or branched from the base, branches upright with 2-6 cm long internodes. Leaves sessile, oblong-oblanceolate to lanceolate or ± linear-lanceolate above, 2-8 x 0.5-2 cm, shortly connate-vaginate at the base, basal ones puberulent or glabrescent, obtuse to acute. Flowers pink or pale-pink, 10-12 mm across, few to many, dichasial; pedicels 8-12 mm long, elongated in fruit to 2 cm, glandular hairy; bracts leafy, linear-lanceolate. Calyx tube conical-cylindrical at anthesis, 18-25 (-30) x c. 3-4 mm, strongly inflated, umbilicate globose and 10-15 mm across in fruit with attenuate-contracted apex, 30-nerved, nerves distinct and covered with short glandular hairs; teeth lanceolate-subulate, 6-8 mm long, acute-acuminate. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, 5-8 mm long, entire, irregularly notched or emarginate, pink or reddish; claw white, oblong-oblanceolate, 25-35 mm long, glabrous; coronal scales oblong, c. 2 mm long, truncate, fringed or bidentate. Stamens 10, filaments mostly hairy in lower half; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, yellow. Ovary ovoid-sub globose, minutely stipilate; styles filiform, exerted. Capsule sub globose-pyrifonn, 15-18 (-20) x c. 10 mm, coriaceous, with c. 6-8 mm long, narrow neck, included in the calyx; carpophore c. 1.5-2 mm long. Seeds rounded-reniform, 1.25-1.5 mm long, concave on one side, bluntly tuberculate, dark brown.
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