Silene indicaRoxb. ex Otth

WFO wfo-0001238427 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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.

Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-26 / obs. 38745398
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745636
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745497
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745442
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745339
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745555
Silene indica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38745595

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Silene indica is native: Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya TibetEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Silene indica, 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
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Tibet CHT ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

  • Lychnis bhutanica W.W.Sm.
  • Lychnis cashmeriana Royle ex Benth.
  • Lychnis ciliata Wall.
  • Lychnis fimbriata (G.Don) Wall.
  • Lychnis indica Benth.
  • Lychnis indica var. fimbriata Edgew. & Hook.f.
  • Lychnis nutans Benth.
  • Melandrium indicum (Roxb. ex Otth) Walp.
  • Silene bhutanica (W.W.Sm.) Majumdar
  • Silene edgeworthii Bocquet
  • Silene indica Roxb.
  • Silene indica var. indica

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.