Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Caryophyllanae > Order Caryophyllales > Family Caryophyllaceae > Genus Silene

Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Clairv.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Silene*	L.	accepted genus name
*Behen*	Moench	synonym
*Coronaria*	Schaeff.	synonym
*Cucubalus*	L.	synonym
*Elisanthe*	Rchb.	synonym
*Eudiantha*	(Rchb.) Rchb.	synonym
*Eudianthe*	(Rchb.) Rchb.	synonym
*Gastrolychnis*	(Fenzl) Rchb. f.	synonym
*Heliosperma*	Rchb.	synonym
*Lychnis*	L.	synonym
*Melandrium*	Röhl.	synonym
*Oberna*	(Adans.) Belli	synonym
*Otites*	(Adans.) Belli	synonym
*Pleconax*	Raf.	synonym
*Polyschemone*	Schott	synonym
*Schischkiniella*	Steenis	synonym
*Silene baccifera*	(L.) Roth	synonym
*Steris*	(Adans.) Belli	synonym
*Viscago*	Zinn	synonym
*Viscaria*	Röhl.	synonym
*Wahlbergella*	Fr.	synonym

Species group names

*Lychnis flos-cuculi*	L.	basionym
*Lychnis flos-cuculi*	L.	homotypic synonym
*Agrostemma flos-cuculi*	(L.) G. Don	synonym
*Agrostemma flos-cuculi*	(L.) Don	synonym
*Coronaria flos-cuculi*	(L.) A. Braun	synonym
*Lychnis cyrilli*	K. Richt.	synonym
*Lychnis cyrilli*	Rchb.	synonym
*Lychnis flos-cuculi subsp. flos-cuculi*	L.	synonym
*Silene flos-cuculi*	(L.) Greuter & Burdet	synonym
*Silene flos-cuculi subsp. flos-cuculi*	(L.) Greuter & Burdet	synonym
*Silene flos-cuculi subsp. flos-cuculi*	(L.) Clairv.	synonym

Children

Silene flos-cuculi subsp. subintegra (Hayek) Greuter & Burdet

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: cucut de rec; flor del cucut sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Galician: herba do cuco sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: flor-de-cuco sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: flor de cuchillo; flor de cuclillo; flor del cuclillo; flor del cuco

Literature

nomenclatural reference	Clairv., Man. Herbor. Suisse. 1811.

Genbank

Citation

Marhold, K. (2011): Caryophyllaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Clairv.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=AB63444E-71FC-4292-89D1-EAFC5AD6DA1C