Primula alchemilloides (Franchet) Derganc.

Herbs perennial, pulvinate-cespitose. Caudex 1.5--4 cm, branched, encircled with withered remains of leaves. Leaves of current year borne on apex of caudicules, in a rosette; petiole ca. 6 mm, dilated and subvaginate on lower part, margin membranous; leaf blade flabellate, 3--5 mm wide, densely minutely hirtellous, base short attenuate, palmately 3-lobed nearly to base; lobes 3- or 4-divided; segments linear, (0.5--)1--1.5 mm wide, apex subobtuse. Scapes 1.5--3 cm, hirtellous; umbels 3--8(--12)-flowered; bracts elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 3--5 mm, abaxially densely hirtellous, adaxially glabrous. Pedicel 5--7 mm, hirtellous. Calyx 3--4 mm, densely hirtellous, parted to middle; lobes ovate, apex subobtuse. Corolla white or pink, 5--7 mm in diam.; lobes oblong to oblong-obovate, ca. 2 mm wide, apex truncate to slightly emarginate. Fl. May-Jun.

* On rocks of grassy slopes; 3000--4000 m. NW Yunnan.