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Internal ID UUID643ffcf73fbef992000299
Scientific name Silene acaulis
Authority (L.) Jacq.
First published in Enum. Stirp. Vindob. : 242 (1762)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Lychnis acaulis Scop. Fl. Carniol. , ed. 2, 1: 306 (1771)
Oncerum acaule Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées : 257 (1867)
Silene elongata Bellardi Osserv. Bot. : 60 (1788)
Cucubalus acaulis L. Sp. Pl. : 415 (1753)
Cucubalus muscosus Lam. Fl. Franç. (Lamarck) 3: 30. 1779 [1778 publ. after 21 Mar 1779]
Silene acaulis subsp. longiscapa Vierh. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 51: 561 1901
Silene exscapa All. Fl. Pedem. 2: 83 (1785)
Silene acaulis subsp. arctica Á.Löve & D.Löve Univ. Colorado Stud. Ser. Biol. Ser. no. 17: 21. 1965
Silene acaulis subsp. subacaulescens (F.N.Williams) Hultén Acta Univ. Lund., 2 , 40(1): 696 (1944)

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Language Common/alternative name
English cushion pink
English moss champion
English moss campion
Arabic عشبة الذباب
Arabic حشيشية الذبان الصغير
Arabic حشيشة الذباب
Bulgarian безстъблено плюскавиче
Czech silenka bezlodyžná
Welsh gludlys mwsoglog
Danish tue-limurt
German polsternelke
German stängelloses leimkraut
German stengelloses leimkraut
Estonian varretu põisrohi
Finnish tunturikohokki
French silène acaule
frp pan des marmôtes
Irish coireán caonaigh
Icelandic lambagras
Italian silene a cuscinetto
Japanese コケマンテマ
Norwegian Bokmål fjellsmelle
Dutch stengelloze silene
Norwegian Nynorsk fjellsmelle
Polish lepnica bezłodygowa
Romanian iarbă roșioară
Russian Арктосмолка бесстебельная
Russian Смолёвка бесстебельная
Slovenian brezstebelna lepnica
Serbian Сједећа пушина
Swedish fjällglim
Ukrainian смілка безстебла

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Name Authority First published in
Silene acaulis subsp. bryoides (Jord.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur. 93 1878
Silene acaulis subsp. subacaulescens (F.N.Williams) C.L.Hitchc. & Maguire Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 13: 22. 1947

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Sow seeds at 20°C, expecting germination within 3 months without further temperature treatment.

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- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • Russian Far East
      • Kamchatka
      • Magadan
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • West Siberia
    • Western Asia
      • Turkey
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Svalbard
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Maine
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Aleutian Islands
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000438305
Canadensys 4367
USDA Plants SIAC
Tropicos 6300199
INPN 123374
Flora of Italy 839
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60452326-2
The Plant List kew-2485026
PFAF Silene acaulis
Open Tree Of Life 637571
Observations.org 122286
NCBI Taxonomy 39862
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002992
Nature Serve 2.130177
IPNI 60452326-2
iNaturalist 68886
GBIF 5384754
Freebase /m/06csyf
EPPO SILAC
EOL 588670
Elurikkus 7261
USDA GRIN 401845
Wikipedia Silene_acaulis
Plantarium 35628
PaleoBotany 4143

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_981406025.1 dcSilAcau1.hap1.1 Chromosome WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE 2026-03-01 63 1.23 Gb

Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Last-Century Forest Dynamics in a Highland Pyrenean National Park and Implications for Conservation Rull V, Blasco A, Sigro J, Vegas-Vilarrúbia T Plants (Basel) 19-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11054021
doi:10.3390/plants13081144
PMID:38674553
Robotic monitoring of Alpine screes: a dataset from the EU Natura2000 habitat 8110 in the Italian Alps Angelini F, Pollayil MJ, Valle B, Borgatti MS, Caccianiga M, Garabini M Sci Data 01-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10692210
doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02764-1
PMID:38040689
Floristic–Vegetational Features of Geranium argenteum, an Alpine–Apennine Species at Its Limit of Distribution in the Apennines Ballelli S, Tesei G, Pennesi R, Allegrezza M Life (Basel) 28-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10744573
doi:10.3390/life13122273
PMID:38137874
Sexual dimorphism and female advantage hypothesis in the gynomonoecious-gynodioecious Dianthus plumarius (Caryophyllaceae) Gavini SS AoB Plants 28-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10712218
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plad084
PMID:38090391
Concepts in Alpine Plant Ecology Körner C Plants (Basel) 17-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10386573
doi:10.3390/plants12142666
PMID:37514280
Plant sex influences on riparian communities and ecosystems Scheuerell RP, LeRoy CJ Ecol Evol 12-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10337289
doi:10.1002/ece3.10308
PMID:37449021
Diverging trends and drivers of Arctic flower production in Greenland over space and time Becker-Scarpitta A, Antão LH, Schmidt NM, Blanchet FG, Kaarlejärvi E, Raundrup K, Roslin T Polar Biol 12-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10425507
doi:10.1007/s00300-023-03164-2
PMID:37589013
The genome of the glasshouse plant noble rhubarb (Rheum nobile) provides a window into alpine adaptation Feng T, Pucker B, Kuang T, Song B, Yang Y, Lin N, Zhang H, Moore MJ, Brockington SF, Wang Q, Deng T, Wang H, Sun H Commun Biol 10-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10333194
doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05044-1
PMID:37429977
A demographic approach for predicting population responses to multifactorial stressors Zettlemoyer MA AoB Plants 02-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10243908
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plad023
PMID:37288426
From everywhere all at once: Several colonization routes available to Svalbard in the early Holocene Brožová V, Bolstad JS, Seregin AP, Eidesen PB Ecol Evol 19-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10025081
doi:10.1002/ece3.9892
PMID:36950366
Identification and functional studies of microbial volatile organic compounds produced by Arctic flower yeasts Niu J, Li X, Zhang S, Yao Y, Zhang Y, Liu Y, Peng X, Huang J, Peng F Front Plant Sci 05-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9850290
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.941929
PMID:36684747
A new order, Entrophosporales, and three new Entrophospora species in Glomeromycota Błaszkowski J, Sánchez-García M, Niezgoda P, Zubek S, Fernández F, Vila A, Al-Yahya’ei MN, Symanczik S, Milczarski P, Malinowski R, Cabello M, Goto BT, Casieri L, Malicka M, Bierza W, Magurno F Front Microbiol 29-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9835108
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.962856
PMID:36643412
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change Garcés-Pastor S, Coissac E, Lavergne S, Schwörer C, Theurillat JP, Heintzman PD, Wangensteen OS, Tinner W, Rey F, Heer M, Rutzer A, Walsh K, Lammers Y, Brown AG, Goslar T, Rijal DP, Karger DN, Pellissier L, Heiri O, Alsos IG Nat Commun 04-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9636257
doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4
PMID:36333301
Plant and Soil Core Mycobiomes in a Two-Year Sorghum–Legume Intercropping System of Underutilized Crops in South Africa Pambuka GT, Kinge TR, Ghosh S, Cason ED, Nyaga MM, Gryzenhout M Microorganisms 20-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9611730
doi:10.3390/microorganisms10102079
PMID:36296355
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities Besson M, Alison J, Bjerge K, Gorochowski TE, Høye TT, Jucker T, Mann HM, Clements CF Ecol Lett 20-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9828790
doi:10.1111/ele.14123
PMID:36264848

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