Psammosilene tunicoides is a species of flowering plant in the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae. It is the sole species in genus Psammosilene. It is a perennial native to southeastern Tibet and southwestern Sichuan, Yunnan, and western Guizhou provinces in China, and to northern Thailand.[1]

Psammosilene
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Psammosilene
W.C.Wu & C.Y.Wu (1945)
Species:
P. tunicoides
Binomial name
Psammosilene tunicoides
W.C.Wu & C.Y.Wu (1945)
Synonyms[1]

Silene cryptantha Diels (1912), nom. illeg.

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