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As classified in WFO snapshot

March 2019

Warning: older classification

genus

Silene L.

This genus name was first published in Sp. Pl. : 416 (1753)

At the time of this classification snapshot, this genus name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-4000035363.

Literature

Sp. Pl. 1: 416. 1753 [1 May 1753] ; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 193. 1754.

Synonyms of Silene

Name	Author	Protologue	Nomenclator	WFO link
Charesia	E.A. Busch	Trudy Bot. Muz. 19: 182. 1926.	—	wfo-4000007691
Cucubalus	L.	Sp. Pl. 1: 414. 1753. (1 May 1753)	—	wfo-4000009999
Elisanthe	(Fenzl ex Endl.) Rchb.	Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch 206. 1841[1841].	—	wfo-4000013214
Gastrolychnis	(Fenzl) Rchb.	Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch 206. 1841.	—	wfo-4000015380
Melandrium	Röhl.	Deutschl. Fl. (ed. 2), Phanerog. Gew. 2: 37, 274. 1812.	—	wfo-4000023574
Otites	Adans.	Fam. Pl. 2: 255. 1763.	—	wfo-4000027455
Physolychnis	(Benth.) Rupr.	Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7 14(4): 41. 1869.	—	wfo-4000029558
Pleconax	Raf.	Autik. Bot. 24. 1840.	—	wfo-4000030184

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