Silene wardii (C. Marquand) Bocquet

This species is unique in its group in its hairy petal limbs. The type sheet bears the field note “limb dark slaty blue, pink at margin, coronal scales crimson.”

Stems violet, ascending from ± procumbent base, 10--15(--22) cm tall, sparsely clustered, usually simple, densely glandular hairy. Basal leaves withered at anthesis; cauline leaves usually 4 or 5 pairs, sessile, elliptic, 2--3(--4.5) × 1--1.5(--2) cm, both surfaces and margin glandular hairy, apex acute. Flowers solitary, rarely 2 or 3. Pedicel 1.5--2 cm, densely glandular hairy. Calyx ovoid-campanulate, 2--2.5 × 1--1.4 cm, umbilicate below, open at apex, densely violet glandular hairy at veins; calyx teeth violet, elliptic, 5--7 mm, margin glandular ciliate, apex obtuse. Androgynophore 3--4 mm, long lanate-villous. Petals exserted 8--10 mm beyond calyx, pale violet; claws 1.7--1.8 cm; limbs glandular hairy, deeply bifid; lobes dentate or with small round teeth; coronal scales cuneate, truncate at apex, erose. Stamens ca. 1 cm; filaments woolly-hairy basally. Styles short. Capsule ovoid, 1.2--1.5 cm, 5-toothed. Seeds pale brown, orbicular-reniform, flat, ca. 2 mm, winged.

SE Xizang.

* Shifting screes, sandy gravelly deltas of glacier streams; ca. 4200 m.

Lychnis wardii Marquand, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 48: 165. 1929; Melandrium wardii (Marquand) Pax & K. Hoffmann.

Silene wardii là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Cẩm chướng. Loài này được (C. Marquand) Bocquet miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1967.

林芝蝇子草（学名：Silene wardii）是石竹科蝇子草属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的西藏等地，生长于海拔4,200米的地区，见于冰渍流石滩，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。