Androsace longifolia Turczaninow var. decipiens Handel-Mazzetti; A. mariae Kanitz var. tibetica (Maximowicz) Handel-Mazzetti; A. mariae var. trachyloma Handel-Mazzetti; A. semperviroides Jacquemont var. tibetica Maximowicz; A. tibetica R. Knuth var. mariae (Kanitz) R. Knuth.
Herbs perennial, forming dense mats. Leaf rosettes superimposed, usually without intervals, 1--3(--4) cm in diam. Leaves dimorphic. Outer leaves sessile, ligulate to spatulate, 3--5 X 1--1.5 mm, ciliate, apex acute. Inner leaves subsessile, spatulate to obovate-elliptic, 7--15 X 2--5 mm, tapering toward base, short ciliate or intermixed with long hairs, glabrescent, strigillose or hirsute, margin cartilaginous, apex acute to rounded, mucronate. Scapes solitary, 2--8 cm, moderately to densely hirsute and glandular; umbels 2--7(--10)-flowered; bracts lanceolate to linear, 3--4 mm, margin not cartilaginous, hirsute. Pedicel 5--7 mm, elongating to 1.8 cm in fruit, hirsute. Calyx ca. 3 mm, parted ± middle; lobes triangular, hirsute. Corolla pink, 5--7 mm in diam.; lobes cuneate-obovate, margin obscurely undulate, apex rounded. Fl. Jun.
* Dry meadows, gravelly slopes, open woodlands; 1300--4000 m. S Gansu, Nei Mongol, E Qinghai, W Sichuan, E Xizang.
