Silene acutifolia Link ex Rohrb. is a plant in the Caryophyllaceae family, order Caryophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Silene acutifolia Link ex Rohrb.

Silene acutifolia Link ex Rohrb.

Silene acutifolia is a plant species with purplish-pink protandrous hermaphroditic flowers that can self-pollinate.

Genus
Silene
Order
Caryophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Silene acutifolia Link ex Rohrb.

Silene acutifolia Link ex Rohrb. produces purplish-pink hypogynous flowers. These flowers are hermaphroditic and protandrous. The temporal separation between their male and female reproductive stages is incomplete, which makes self-pollination possible for this species. A 2002 study suggested that this trait may indicate the species evolved recently within its genus.

Photo: (c) Avelino Vieira, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Avelino Vieira · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Caryophyllales Caryophyllaceae Silene

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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