• Family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  (Pink Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BUGYALE FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Saponaria vaccaria L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert
• Vernacular name : Musna, Sabuni (Hindi); Sabani (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : An introduced plant and becomes a weed in gardens
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Nagpur district, Aurangabad district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : Temperate Asia, Europe
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vaccaria pyramidata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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