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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene kingii
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Bocquet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Candollea
|place=22: 29. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=King’s catchfly
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lychnis kingii
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=12: 247. 1877
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gastrolychnis kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) W. A. Weber
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lychnis apetala var. kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Melandrium kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) Rydberg
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wahlbergella kingii
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene kingii
|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 kingii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 168, 210
|treatment_page=page 189
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, compact; taproot thick; caudex much-branched, fleshy. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple proximal to inflorescence, 7–20 cm, with 2–4 pairs of leaves, short retrorse-pubescent proximally, stipitate-glandular and viscid distally, with purple-septate hairs. <b>Leaves</b>: basal pseudopetiolate, tufted, blade narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–5 cm × 1.5–5 mm, base narrowed into long pseudopetiole, retrorse-puberulent on both surfaces; cauline sessile, connate at base, blade linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1–4 cm × 1.5–4 mm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1(–3)-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, rarely somewhat curved or reflexed near tip, 0.5–2 cm, 1/2–3 times calyx, viscid with stipitate-glandular and purple-septate hairs, hairs less than 1/2 pedicel diam. <b>Flowers</b> 10–12 mm diam.; calyx prominently 10-veined, ellipsoid, somewhat inflated and contracted at mouth to 1/2–2/3 diam., 12–14 × 6–7 mm in flower, 14–17 × 7–8 mm in fruit, to 2 times as long as broad, papery, margins dentate, lobes 5, patent, ca. 2 mm, with broad, membranous margins, apex obtuse, pubescent, hairs short and stipitate-glandular and long purple-septate; corolla pink to purple, slightly longer than calyx, limb 2-lobed, 4–5 mm, with 2 short (ca. 0.5 mm) appendages; stamens equaling corolla; stigmas (4–)5, equaling corolla. <b>Capsules</b> equaling calyx, opening by 5 recurved teeth, which later split into 10; carpophore very short or absent. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform, not winged, 0.7–1 mm, papillate-tuberculate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine slopes, tundra, stony ridges
|elevation=3000-4000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Silene kingii</i> is very similar to and probably a close relative of <i>S. uralensis </i>subsp.<i> uralensis</i>, from which it is distinguished by its nonwinged seeds and elliptic fruiting calyx. However, some material from the southern Rocky Mountains, growing with <i></i>subsp.<i> uralensis</i>, is intermediate between the two species in having narrowly winged seeds. The status of <i>S. kingii</i> requires further study.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) Bocquet
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gastrolychnis kingii;Lychnis apetala var. kingii;Melandrium kingii;Wahlbergella kingii
|basionyms=Lychnis kingii
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine slopes, tundra, stony ridges
|elevation=3000-4000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Candollea
|publication year=1967
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_384.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene kingii
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