Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

SILENE (G, La)
Catchfly, Campion (Le)
Family: CARYOPHYLLACEAE

Σέίληνός, Silenus,** = the tutor and constant attendant of Bacchus; represented a baldhead, with short horns and a flat nose, as drunken, lascivious, and mounted on an ass.
sialon, = spittle, foam from the mouth, saliva, slaver.
(sticky secretion of stems which entrap small insects)
(ld, LS, Le)

Silene aethiopica subsp. aethiopica (G, La)

Location: (F)

Aithiops, (αίθώ, όψ), = an Ethiop, negro, properly Burnt-face;
Aethiopia, = a country in Africa, on both sides of the equator. Its limits cannot be accurately defined;
(usually South Africa, in classical use Africa south of Libya and Egypt, hence Abyssinia)
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.

(LS, ld, BL)

Silene burchellii subsp. burchellii
Gunpowder Plant, Iyeza Lehashe, Kruitbossie (PS)
Location: (F)

For William John Burchell (1781-1863).**
(Ch)

Silene burchellii subsp. pilosellifolia (La)

Location: (K, P)

For William John Burchell (1781-1863).**

pilus, = hair, the hair;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development;
pilosus, = hairy, shaggy;
(pilose, hairy with distinct long ascending hairs)
-ellus, = diminutive;
folium, = a leaf.
(Ch, ld, BL)

Silene clandestina [Now S. aethiopica subsp. aethiopica] (La)

Location: (F)

clandestinus, (from clam-des-tinus), = secret, hidden, concealed, clandestine;
tinus, = a plant: Viburnum tinus, Linneus;
-inus, = indicates possession or resemblance.
(hidden, concealed, - e.g. inflorescence below subtending leaves, or the plant body (except inflorescence) below ground)
(ld, BL)

Silene crassifolia subsp. crassifolia (La)

Location: (K)

crassus, = solid, thick, dense, fat, gross, etc.;
folium, = a leaf.
(something more thick than usual. Leaves, for instance, are generally papery in texture; the leaves of cotyledons, which are much more fleshy, are called ‘thick’)
(ld, BL)

Silene gallica var. gallica (La)
Eierbossie, Gunpowder Weed, Kruitbpssie, Small Catchfly (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

Gallicia, = N.W. Spain.
(Alien)
(BL, Cw)

Silene gallica var. quinquevulnera (alien and naturalised) (La)

Location: (P)

Gallicia, = N.W. Spain.

quinque, = five;
vulnero, volnero, = to wound, to hurt, or injure by a wound.
vulnus, volnus, = a wound; of things, a hole, cut, incision, notch, rent, crack.
(-wounded)
(BL, ld)

Silene pilosellifolia

Location: (K)

Now S. burchellii subsp. pilosellifolia.
(PS)

Silene rigens (La)

Location: (F, K)

rigeo, rigens, = to be stiff, stiffen.
(stiff, rigid, unbendable)
(ld, BL)

Silene undulata subsp. undulata (La)
Gunpowder Plant, Wilde Tabak (PS)
Location: (F, K, P)

undo, = to rise in waves or surges, to throw up waves, to surge, swell; to wave, undulate;
-ulus, = diminutive;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
undulatus, = diversified as with waves, undulated.
(undulated)
(ld, BL)