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Taxon

Silene chlorifolia Sm.

Protologue Pl. Ic. Ined. i. 13. t. 13.IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (5).jpg

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (5).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (6).jpg

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (6).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (4).jpg

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (4).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (3).jpg

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (3).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (2).jpg

Silene chlorifolia, 6.8--Iraq. Kurdistan. Shakh-i Sakran. 19 June 2010. 115 (2).jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Silene

Species

chlorifolia

Taxonomic opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Distribution

Native to East Aegean Is., Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

6.8

June 19, 2010

Location

Iraq, Kurdistan, Erbil Prov. (Cham i Sakran)

36.594944, 44.908917

Location Remarks

Choman Distr. Vicinity of Shakh-i Sakran. Sakri Sakran, c. 40 km north of Raniya and Dukan Lake (as the crow flies), along a dirt road connecting Raniya through Sakran Village Resort, ultimately to Hwy 3. 1496 m elev.

Collectors

Ihsan Al-Shebaz, Christopher Davidson, Barbara Ertter, Sharon R. Christoph

Notes

Roadside vegetation in diffuse Quercus woodland. Leaves perfoliate, glaucous.

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.6

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#290,023 of 335,497

Top 87%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →