Androsace rotundifolia Hardwicke var. dissecta Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 32: 10. 1885; Primula dissecta (Franchet) Derganc.

Herbs perennial. Leaves numerous; petiole 2--4 X as long as leaf blade, slightly dilated at base, minutely downward pubescent; leaf blade orbicular to reniform, 1--3 cm wide, densely strigillose, base cordate, sinus penetrating 1/4--1/3 into leaf blade, palmately 5- or 6-lobed to middle; lobes cuneate-obovate, 3-lobulate; lobules obtuse or 2- or 3-toothed at margin. Scapes 3--15(--30) cm, densely downward pubescent; umbels subcapitate, 4--8-flowered; bracts linear, 2--3 mm, pubescent. Pedicel 0.5--2 mm, shorter than bracts. Calyx minutely hirtellous, parted to 1/2; lobes ovate-lanceolate, apex acute to subobtuse. Corolla white or pink, 4--7 mm in diam.; lobes obovate, 1--2 mm wide, emarginate. Fl. Apr-May.

* Open mountain woodlands, glades, rocky banks; 2800--3500 m. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan.