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Silene andicola
Superior Taxa: Caryophyllaceae / Caryophyllales
Arbusto bajo de hojas lanceoladas, ciliadas y hasta velluda en las venas. Los tallos de las eflorescencias pueden crecer entre 5 y 30 cm de altura.
La flor tiene un prominente cáliz abultado de color rosado, rojo a púrpura. Los pétalos son blancos o crema.
Loosely tufted to closely cushion-forming with a creeping woody caudex. Basal leaves rosetted, spathulate to oblanceolate, 1.5-9cm long by 3-15mm wide, ciliate and sometimes hairy on the veins. Flowering stems 5-30cm tall with smaller, narrower leaves and one to two branched cymes.
Flowers 2-3cm across with white to blush-pink or mauve-purple bifid petals with distinct corona scales and five, or rarely three stigmas; the prominent turbinate to bell-shaped calyx is curly pubescent with ten purplish main veins.
Puede ser encontrada en Perú y Bolivia central, así como en la patagonia chilena y argentina, en lugares muy expuestos al sol, sobre el límite del bosque, de 1500 a 5000 m.s.n.m.
Central Peru to Bolivia, Chile and Patagonian Argentina, on rocky slopes, outcrops, soily screes, grassland and open scrub at 1500-5000m. A variable species, only the most dwarf forms being worth growing.
Ref:
http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/F...
http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/F...
http://encyclopaedia.alpinegardensociety...
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