Dianthus aticii Hamzaoglu

Suffruticose, several-stemmed, subpruinose herbs. Stems erect, fragile, 20–35 cm tall, branching from upper nodes, 6–10-nodes, glabrous or puberulent. Leaves subcanaliculate, thick, glabrous or puberulent, margins scabrous, ciliate and scarious at base, apex acuminate; sterile shoot leaves subulate, equal or longer than cauline leaves; cauline leaves subulate to linear-filiform, 11–22 × 0.6–1.2 mm, appressed to stem, obviously shorter than internodes, rigid, 3-veined, sheaths equal or slightly longer than wide; upper similar but smaller. Flowers solitary or few in racemes; branches angled at 5–15°, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, up to 3 cm long; pedicels 5–15 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, greenish. Epicalyx scales (4-)6–8(-12), cartilaginous, greenish or straw-coloured, glabrous or puberulent, appressed to calyx, apex acute to acuminate except arista; outer linear-lanceolate, veinless below, indistinctly 5–9-veined above, 1/5–2/5 as long as calyx, 4–8 × 0.8–1.2 mm, with narrowly scarious (c. 0.2 mm) margins, arista 1/2–2/3 as long as scale; inner oblong-oblanceolate, veinless below, indistinctly 7–9-veined above, 2/5–1/2 as long as calyx, 6–9 × 2.5–3.5 mm, with scarious (0.2–0.4 mm) margins, arista 1/10–1/7 as long as scale. Calyx cylindric-lanceolate, 16–22 × 3–4.5 mm, distinctly 36–40-veined above, glabrous or puberulent, pale green or sometimes purplish; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 4–5.5 × 1.2–2 mm, 7-veined, with ciliate and scarious margins, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes short mucronate. Petals 20–23 mm long; limb broadly cuneate, 7–8 × 6–7 mm, c. 1/3 as long as petal, completely exserted from calyx, usually spotted, barbulate, pink, yellowish-green beneath, 7–11-toothed to apex, teeth triangular, up to 1/6 as long as limb; claw 12–15 × 1.5 mm, collar almost as wide as claw. Capsule equal in length to calyx. Seeds elliptical, 2–3 × 1.4–2 mm, blackish.