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|accepted_name=Silene nachlingerae
|accepted_authority=Tiehm
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=37: 344, fig. 1. 1985
|year=1985
}}
|common_names=Nachlinger’s or Jan’s catchfly
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene nachlingerae
|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 nachlingerae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 171, 194
|treatment_page=page 193
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; taproot stout; caudex usually branched, woody, producing tufts of basal leaves and 1–several flowering shoots. <b>Stems</b> subscapose, with (1–)2–3(–4) pairs of leaves, 6–25 cm, much reduced above base, retrorsely puberulent, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per node; basal blades oblanceolate, spatulate, 1.4–4 cm × 2–5 mm, base ciliate, apex acute, subglabrous to retrorse-puberulent; cauline shortly connate proximally, blade narrowly oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0.5–3.5 cm × 1–2 mm, apex purple tinged, retrorse-puberulent, often sparsely so. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–3(–4)-flowered, open. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, 1–4 times longer than fruiting calyx, retrorsely puberulent, without glandular hairs. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx prominently 10-veined, cylindric, becoming narrowly ovoid, not inflated, not contracted proximally around carpophore, 6–11.5 × 3 mm in flower, broadening to ca. 5 mm in fruit, membranous, uniformly puberulent, without glandular hairs, veins parallel, green, with pale commissures, lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm, margins narrowly membranous, apex purple-tipped; corolla white, usually flushed with pink or purple towards apex, ligulate to ± oblanceolate, slightly longer than calyx, not clearly differentiated into claw and limb, unlobed to notched, auricles and appendages absent; stamens equaling calyx; styles 3, included in calyx. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid-ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 ascending teeth; carpophore ca. 1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> rust colored, reniform, 0.7–1 mm, margins papillate; papillae large, inflated.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine limestone ridges and slopes
|elevation=2500-3000 m
|distribution=Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Silene nachlingerae</i> is a small version of <i>S. invisa</i>, although the latter species has glabrous leaves. Both have the characteristic inflated (balloonlike) papillae around the outer edge of the seed.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene nachlingerae
|authority=Tiehm
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine limestone ridges and slopes
|elevation=2500-3000 m
|distribution=Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1985
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene nachlingerae
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