Silene nodulosa, Viv.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 164

9. S. nodulosa Viv. , Fl. Cors. 6 (1824)

( S. pauciflora Salzm. ex DC. , non Ucria).

Perennial with rather slender, branched woody stock and numerous slender flowering stems up to 40 cm; lower part of stem and leaves scabrid-puberulent. Lower leaves up to 30 x 5 mm, oblanceolate to narrowly spathulate; upper cauline leaves linear, distant. Inflorescence glabrous, (l-)2- to 5-flowered; pedicels up to 7 cm, very slender. Calyx 18-20 mm, narrow, glabrous; teeth obtuse, more or less ciliate. Petals white, reddish beneath. Capsule c. 10 mm, ovoid; carpophore c. 12 mm, glabrous. Seeds c. 1 mm, black. • Corse, Sardegna. Co Sa.