View source for Silene involucrata

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene involucrata
|accepted_authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Bocquet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Candollea
|place=22: 22. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Arctic campion
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lychnis apetala var. involucrata
|authority=Chamisso & Schlechtendal
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Linnaea
|publication_place=1: 43. 1826
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lychnis gillettii
|authority=B. Boivin
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene involucrata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Silene]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Silene involucrata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 167, 168, 188, 207, 210
|treatment_page=page 187
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, sometimes with dense tufts of basal rosettes of leaves, subglabrous to pubescent and glandular; taproot slender or stout. <b>Flowering</b> stems several, erect, simple or branched, 10–45 cm, usually with 2–5 pairs of leaves. <b>Leaves</b> mainly basal, petiolate; blade narrowly oblanceolate, ± spatulate, 20–60 × 3–5(–10) mm (including petiole), glabrous to pubescent, especially on margins and abaxial veins, pubescence spreading, short, stiff, mainly eglandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–3-flowered, open, bracteate, pubescent, usually densely so, hairs long, flexuous, purple-septate, mostly glandular; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 mm, usually pubescent. <b>Pedicels</b> usually several times longer than calyx. <b>Flowers</b> pedicellate, rarely sessile, erect, 8–16 mm diam.; calyx prominently 10-veined, not inflated or thin, campanulate or ovate, 8–20 mm, pubescent, especially on veins, rarely almost glabrous, hairs long and short purple-septate, ± glandular, veins heavily suffused with purple (rarely green), sinuses between veins pale, cream colored; petals white, often pink or purple tinged, claw equaling calyx, limb not differentiated from claw, emarginate to obovate, often 2-lobed, ca. 1/2 as long as calyx; stamens included in calyx, spreading horizontally; styles 5, included in calyx. <b>Capsules</b> equaling calyx, opening by 5 teeth, tardily splitting into 10. <b>Seeds</b> brown, winged, ± reniform to angular, 1–1.5 mm diam.; wing to 1/2 seed diam.</span><!--

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|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East;Siberia).
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Silene involucrata</i> is a very variable circumpolar and arctic-alpine species complex. Many of the variants have been treated as species by earlier workers. Here, a single species with two subspecies is recognized.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Calyx campanulate to ovoid, 10-20 mm in fruit; flowering stems sturdy, usually less than 20 cm, internodes equaling or shorter than leaves
|[[Silene involucrata subsp. involucrata|Silene involucrata subsp. involucrata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Calyx campanulate, 8-10(-12) mm in fruit; flowering stems slender, usually over 30 cm, internodes longer than leaves
|[[Silene involucrata subsp. tenella|Silene involucrata subsp. tenella]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene involucrata
|authority=(Chamisso & Schlechtendal) Bocquet
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lychnis gillettii
|basionyms=Lychnis apetala var. involucrata
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=Greenland;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Russian Far East;Siberia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Candollea
|publication year=1967
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_381.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene involucrata
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