Silene fuscata Link ex Brot., it is an annual, erect, up to 40-50 cm tall herb, beset with contorted, patent, multicellular hairs. Stems stout, simple or branched, ribbed or angled. Leaves ± petioled, lower leaves, rosetted and obovate to obovate-oblong, obtuse, upper leaves, oblong-lanceolate, acute, all undulate margined, sparsely hispid to glabrescent. Flowers pink or purple, 12-15 mm across. in axillary and terminal, up to 9-flowered compound panicle-like dichasium with erect alar flowers; pedicels glandular hairy, variable in length, those of alar flowers longer than the rest; bracts leafy, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, ciliate, ± glandulose. Calyx tube reddish-brown, oblong cylindrical at antheis, 12-16 mm long, ± inflated, clavate and not contracted at the apex in fruit, umbilicate, 10-nerved, nerves reddish, beset with glandular and multicellular long hairs; teeth triangular-ovate, c. 2 mm long, obtuse, densely ciliate on scarious margins, denexed in fruit. Petal limb oblong-obovate, 5-6 mm long, entire or inconspicuously emarginated, obtuse; claws ± united into tube, white, not or hardly exserted, glabrous; coronal scales oblong-linear, 2-3 mm long, united in a tube, notched or crenulate at the apex. Stamens 10, filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers ovoid, c 1 mm long, purplish-brown. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, glabrous, shorter than the glabrous stipe; styles exserted. Capsule ovoid, 6-8 (-10) mm long, included in the calyx; carpophore 4.5-7 (-8) mm long, glabrous. Seeds reniform, c. 1 mm long, faces concave or sub excavate and tuberculate, back tuberculate, ungrooved or shallowly grooved, or ± convex.
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