Androsace mirabilis Franch.

Herbs perennial. Leaves forming a basal rosette; petiole 10--15 cm, fulvous villous, especially proximally; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, 5--8(--13) X 3.5--6 cm, papery, abaxially glandular bristly especially on midvein, adaxially glabrous, base rounded to truncate, margin entire to obscurely undulate-crenate, apex obtuse. Scapes erect, 30--40 cm, with dense brown multicellular long glandular hairs; umbel solitary, many flowered; bracts subulate, 8--10 mm. Pedicel 1--1.3 cm, sparsely minutely glandular. Calyx conical-campanulate, 4--5 mm, parted scarcely to 1/2; lobes triangular, mucronulate; veins 5. Corolla pink, ca. 1 cm in diam.; tube shorter than calyx; lobes obovate. Fl. May-Jun.

E Sichuan (Chengkou Xian).

* At margins of mountain woodlands; ca. 1200 m.