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|accepted_name=Silene pseudatocion
|accepted_authority=Desfontaines
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Atlant.
|place=1: 353. 1798
|year=1798
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene pseudatocion
|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 pseudatocion]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 170
|treatment_page=page 200
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> straggling to erect, much-branched, elongate, 20–70 cm, sparsely retrorse-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per node, sessile with spatulate, broad, ciliate base, blade oblanceolate, 1.3–5 cm × 4–15 mm, apex acuminate, glabrous or sparsely setose. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, open, compound, pedunculate; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 3–15 mm, apex acuminate; peduncle ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, elongate, viscid stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx prominently 10-veined, clavate, with long, slender tube surrounding carpophore, 17–20 × 4–6 mm, veins parallel, green or purple with purple stipitate glands, with pale commissures, lobes lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins ciliate, apex acute; corolla bright pink, clawed, claw slightly longer than calyx, limb obovate, unlobed, ca. 1 cm, appendages 2, oblong, 2 mm, entire; stamens included in tip of calyx tube; styles 3, exserted. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 recurved teeth; carpophore 9–10 mm, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> dull and very dark brown, almost globose, inrolled like a clenched fist, 1–1.3 mm, sides with radiating wrinkles, finely tuberculate abaxially. <b>2n</b> = 24 (Balearic Islands).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Neglected gardens, roadsides, waste places
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Europe (Balearic Islands);n Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Silene pseudatocion</i> is occasionally grown in gardens and rarely occurs as a weed in California. It is similar to another garden escape, <i>S. pendula</i>, but it differs in having a calyx tube with a very long, slender base and unlobed petals.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene pseudatocion
|authority=Desfontaines
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Neglected gardens, roadsides, waste places
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Europe (Balearic Islands);n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Atlant.
|publication year=1798
|special status=
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene pseudatocion
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