Taxonomy: Fam. Caryophyllaceae// Genus: Silene// Species: Silene gigantea L.// Subspecies: Silene gigantea subsp. rhodopea (Janka) Greuter. Synonyms: Silene gigantea var. incana (Griseb.) Chowdhuri, Silene gigantea var. rhodopea (Janka.) D. Jord. et P. Pan., Silene rhodopea Janka. Determined according to the botanical keys provided by Chater and Walters in Tutin et al., 1964 (Silene gigantea var. incana (Griseb.)Continue reading “Silene gigantea subsp. rhodopea (Janka) Greuter”
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Dianthus giganteus d’Urv.
Taxonomy: Fam. Caryophyllaceae// Genus: Dianthus// Species: D. giganteus d’Urv. Determined according to the botanical keys provided by Tutin in Tutin et al. (1964) and Micevski (1993). Distribution: Southeast Europe (Balkan Peninsula and Romania) according to the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). Also native to Turkey according to The Euro+Med PlantBase (source: Marhold, 2011+). Lifeform: Perennial;Continue reading “Dianthus giganteus d’Urv.”