Silene fuscata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Silene fuscata Link ex Brot., Fl. Lusit. 2: 187 (1805).

Lectotypus (designated by Meikle 1977: 234): [Portugal, "in collibus circa Cabeça de Montachique necnon circa Obidos, et alibi in Extremadura"]. Brotero 68 ex herb. Cavanilles (MA 31723).

Heterotypic
- Silene divaricata Otth in A.P. de Candolle, Prodr. 1: 153 (1824), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
- Silene undulatifolia Moris, Stirp. Sard. Elench. 1: 8 (1827).
- Silene simplicicarona Mutel, Fl. Franç. Herbor. 1: 148 (1834).
- Silene undulifolia Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 65 (1839).
- Silene sassiana Bertol., Fl. Ital. 4: 609 (1841).
- Silene articulata Kunze, Flora 29: 696 (1846), nom. illeg. homonym. post.
- Silene sicula Bertol. ex Rohrb., Monogr. Silene: 153 (1868), nom. inval.
- Silene fuscata var. elatior Cout., Fl. Portugal: 218 (1913).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - France (introduced), Portugal, Sardegna, Spain.
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia.
Continental: Africa
- Regional: Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Western Asia
  - Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine (Israel, Jordan), Türkiye.

Brotero, F.A. 1805. Flora Lusitanica, seu Plantarum, quae in Lusitania vel Sponte Crescunt, vel frequentius coluntur, ex florum praesertim sexubus systematice distributarum, synopsis. Vol. 2. 557 pp. Typographia Regia, Lisboa. BHL Reference page.

Meikle, R.D. 1977. Flora of Cyprus. Volume One (Pinaceae to Theligonaceae). XII, 832 pp. Bentham-Moxon Trust & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London 1977. ISBN 0-9504876-3-5 Reference page.

Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th. & Strid, A. (eds.) 2018. Flora of Greece Web. Vascular Plants of Greece. An Annotated Checklist. 2nd version of May 2018, continuously updated. Silene fuscata Published online. Accessed: 2019 September 19.Reference page.
Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Silene fuscata in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2019 September 19.Reference page.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2026. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Silene fuscata. Accessed: 2026 March 20.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Silene fuscata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 September 14. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2026. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Silene fuscata. Accessed: 20 March 2026. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Silene fuscata. Published online. Accessed: 14 September 2019. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Silene fuscata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 14 September 2019. Reference page.