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sieberi

Taxon

Silene sieberi Fenzl

Protologue Pug. Pl. Nov. Syr. 8. 1842 [May-Jun 1842]IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted threatened
Silene sieberi --Crete. Samaria Gorge. 27 May 05.  020.jpg

Silene sieberi --Crete. Samaria Gorge. 27 May 05. 020.jpg

By Sharon R. Christoph

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Silene sieberi --Crete. Samaria Gorge. 27 May 05.  021.jpg

Silene sieberi --Crete. Samaria Gorge. 27 May 05. 021.jpg

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Endemic to Kriti (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

No collection number

May 27, 2005

Location

Greece, Crete, Chania (Sfakia)

35.296278, 23.963472

Location Remarks

Samaria National Park. Samaria Gorge.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Silene

Specific Epithet

sieberi

Authorship

Fenzl

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.8

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

Threat status

Predicted threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.2

Global rank

#180,672 of 335,497

Top 54%

Extinction probability

32%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →