Androsace sarmentosa Wallich var. grandifolia J. D. Hooker; A. strigillosa Franchet var. canescens Marquand.

Herbs perennial. Leaf rosettes usually solitary. Leaves trimorphic. Outer leaves ovate to triangular-lanceolate, 6--9 X 3--4 mm, early deciduous, ± pubescent near apex. Medial leaves sessile, liguliform to oblanceolate, 6--15 X 1.5--2.5 mm, herbaceous, hirtellous-villous. Petiole of inner leaves narrowly winged, ca. as long as to slightly longer than leaf blade; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic or obovate-oblanceolate, (2.5--)5--16 X 1--3.5 cm, densely strigose or hirsute, base attenuate, sometimes abruptly narrowed, apex acute to subobtuse and apiculate. Scapes 10--40 cm, sparsely spreading white pilose; umbels many flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 2--5 mm, pubescent. Pedicel 1--5 cm, sparsely minutely glandular pubescent. Calyx 3.5--4 mm, sparsely puberulous, parted to 1/3; lobes broadly ovate to ovate-triangular, minutely ciliate, apex obtuse to subacute. Corolla deep red or pink, 8--9 mm in diam.; lobes broadly obovate, margin nearly entire. Fl. Jun. 2n = 20.

Moist meadows, larch forests, in shrubs; 3000--4200 m. C and SE Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].