Silene marmarica Bég. & A.Vacc., it is a perennial, basally woody, somewhat retrorse pubescent, erect to ascending herb with minutely glandulose tender shoots and inflorescence. Leaves thickened, sessile, lower obovate-spathulate, ± obtuse, upper and middle ones lanceolate, acute to ± acuminate, dotted by remains of basally tubercled retrorse hairs on both sides, ciliate-scabrous on margins. Flowers greenish-white, 18-20 mm across, in a terminal lax panicle; pedicels longer than bract but shorter thin the calyx, glandular-hairy; bracts green, linear-lanceolate to linear, densely ciliate on margins. Calyx subcylindrical at anthesis, 23-27 mm long, clavate, ± umbilicate and attenuate at apex, glandular, 10-nerved, nerves green, filiform, branched reticulately in upper part; teeth 4-4.5 mm long, all acute, outer lanceolate, whitish-membranous and densely ciliate on margins, inner ovate-lanceolate, broad margined with sparse cilia. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, c. 8 mm long, shortly 2-lobed. lobes c. 1.5 mm long; claws moderately exserted, glabrous; coronal scales ovate- lanceolate, less than 1 mm long, free. Filaments glabrous, filiform. Ovary oblong, hardly equalling the stipe; styles filiform. Capsule ovoid-conical c. 15 x 6 mm, broadly attenuate at the apex, not or slightly exceeding the calyx; carpophore 9-10 mm long, straight, almost glabrous, except the retrorse pubescent base, ± adherent to calyx tube.
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