Parnassia wightianaWall. ex Wight & Arn.

WFO wfo-0001135403 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Parnassia wightiana, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. a Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-09-04 / obs. 93860389
Parnassia wightiana, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. b Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93860831
Parnassia wightiana, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. c Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93860834
Parnassia wightiana, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. d Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93860835
Parnassia wightiana, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. e Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93860833

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Parnassia wightiana is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetAssamEast HimalayaIndiaMyanmarNepalVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Parnassia wightiana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Parnassia chengkouensis T.C.Ku
  • Parnassia dilatata Hand.-Mazz.
  • Parnassia longshengensis T.C.Ku
  • Parnassia nana Griff.
  • Parnassia ornata Wall. ex Arn.
  • Parnassia ornata Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Parnassia schmidtii Zenker
  • Parnassia simaoensis Y.Y.Qian
  • Parnassia wightiana var. brachyloba Franch.
  • Parnassia wightiana var. flavida Franch.
  • Parnassia wightiana var. ornata (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Drude
  • Parnassia yiliangensis T.C.Ku

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.