Du Pasquier, P.-E. & D. Jeanmonod (2016). Lectotypification of three species of Silene sect. Italicae (Rohrb.) Schischk. (Caryophyllaceae). Candollea 71: 19–22. In English, English and French abstracts. DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.15553/c2016v711a4

Lectotypes are designated in Boissier's Flora Orientalis herbarium for Silene astartes C.I. Blanche ex Boiss., Silene galataea Boiss. and Silenea splendens Boiss., three species belonging to Silene sect. Italicae (Rohrb.) Schischk. (Caryophyllaceae). An authorship ambiguity about Silene astartes is also resolved.