Silene sp.

Danpav · Post by **Danpav** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:09 pm

Hi
For my second post in this forum i give you some photos of a Silene sp. (Malta...but i don't know where !)
An idea ?
Thanks
Daniel

Post by **MWP admin** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:12 am

Dear Daniel,

I would reply straight away Silene colorata, but since you are posting (a non amateur

) I can tell you that some new taxa of this plant have been described from Italy/France based on microscopical examination on the seeds. One of them is for example Silene sericea.

Last year I checked a couple of random specimens from Malta and all resulted Silene colorata.

I remember that this was my first botanical question when creating the plant profile of Silene colorata back in 2003!!!

Danpav · Post by **Danpav** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:31 am

Thank you, with the photo it was impossible for me to give a name
I know S. sericea from Corsica island (it's a tyrrenian endemic).
S. colorata have winged seeds and sericea no !

IL-PINE · Post by **IL-PINE** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:06 pm

hehe I remember that question on the website, my God 2003!