View source for Silene plankii

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|accepted_name=Silene plankii
|accepted_authority=C. L. Hitchcock & Maguire
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Revis. N. Amer. Silene,
|place=56, plate 7, fig. 55. 1947
|year=1947
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|common_names=Rio Grande fire pink
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene plankii
|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 plankii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 169
|treatment_page=page 199
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose; tap-root stout; caudex with many often subterranean branches, woody. <b>Stems</b> ascending, branched, wiry, leafy, slender, 10–20 cm, finely retrorse gray-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> largest in mid-stem region; blade linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1–4 cm × 1–5 mm, apex sharply acuminate, glandular-puberulent. <b>Inflorescences</b> with flowers usually solitary, terminal on branches. <b>Pedicels</b> shorter than calyx, glandular-puberulent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 10-veined, tubular, constricted around carpophore, umbilicate, 20–30 × 3–6 mm, papery, green, glandular-puberulent, lobes lanceolate, 2–4 mm, margins membranous, apex acute; corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb obconic, 2-lobed, 7–10 mm, margins entire or crenate, appendages ± lacerate, 1–1.5 mm; stamens exserted, ± equaling corolla lobes; styles 3, exserted, ± equaling corolla lobes. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ellipsoid, equaling calyx, opening by 6 recurved, brittle teeth; carpophore ca. 5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform, 1.5 mm, rugose in concentric rings on sides, margins papillate. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–early autumn.
|habitat=Crevices in granite and quartzite cliffs
|elevation=1300-2600 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Silene plankii</i> is a close relative of <i>S. laciniata</i>, differing in its compact tufted growth, small and narrow leaves, and shallowly two-lobed petals. It is endemic to the Del Carmen Mountains on either side of the Rio Grande valley. Plants of <i>S. laciniata</i> with a habit and leaves similar to <i>S. plankii</i> but the deeply laciniate petals of <i>S. laciniata</i> occur on the cliffs of Santa Cruz Island off the coast of California.</p>
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name=Silene plankii
|authority=C. L. Hitchcock & Maguire
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–early autumn.
|habitat=Crevices in granite and quartzite cliffs
|elevation=1300-2600 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Revis. N. Amer. Silene,
|publication year=1947
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene plankii
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