Androsace wilsoniana Hand.-Mazz.

Herbs perennial; caudicules 3--9 mm, with remains of dead leaves, apex leafy. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 1--1.5 cm, sparsely puberulous; leaf blade reniform, 5--7 mm wide, sparsely minutely strigillose, base shallowly cordate, palmately 3--5 lobed to 1/2; center lobes subrounded at apex, margin entire or with 1 tooth on each side, lateral lobes usually 2-lobed. Scapes erect, 4--6 cm, minutely appressed pubescent; umbels 2--4-flowered; bracts usually 4, broadly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2--4 X 0.5--1.2 mm. Pedicel 7--9 mm, minutely strigillose. Calyx 2.5--3 mm, parted slightly below 1/2; lobes triangular, sparsely puberulous, apex acute. Corolla white, 7--8 mm in diam.; tube 2--2.5 mm; lobes broadly obovate, 2--3 mm wide, apex truncate to slightly emarginate. Fl. Jul.

Sichuan (Emei Shan, Wa Shan).

* In rock crevices; ca. 3000 m.