| Silene stenophylla | |
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| Silene stenophylla growing in Magadan Oblast, Russia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | S. stenophylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Silene stenophylla Ledeb. (1842)
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Silene stenophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Commonly called narrow-leafed campion, it is a species in the genus Silene. It grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia and the mountains of northern Japan. Frozen samples, estimated via radiocarbon dating to be around 32,000 years old, were discovered in the same area as current living specimens, and in 2012, a team of scientists successfully regenerated a plant from the samples.[1][2]
- ^ Isachenkov, Vladimir (21 February 2012), "Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow", Jakarta Post via Associated Press, Moscow, archived from the original on 12 March 2016, retrieved 31 December 2014
- ^ Yashinaa, Svetlana; Gubinb, Stanislav; Maksimovichb, Stanislav; Yashinaa, Alexandra; Gakhovaa, Edith; Gilichinsky, David (25 January 2012). Price, P. Buford (ed.). "Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (10): 4008–13. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.4008Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1118386109. PMC 3309767. PMID 22355102.