绵毛点地梅 miao mao dian di mei

Herbs perennial. Leaf rosettes solitary or 2--4 joined by branched ascending caudicules, without sterile shoots, 1.5--4.5 cm in diam. Leaves dimorphic. Outer leaves numerous, sessile, ligulate-oblong, 0.7--1.7 cm, apex obtuse, abaxially ± white lanate, hairs 2--2.5 mm, adaxially strigillose. Inner leaves indistinctly petiolate, obovate to oblanceolate, 10--40(--60) X 5--14 mm, base narrowed, apex obtuse, with white hairs intermixed with glands, hairs 1.5--2 mm. Scapes 9--30 cm, with sparse long spreading hairs; umbels 3--11-flowered; bracts elliptic, 2--5 mm, pubescent on margin and near apex. Pedicel 1--3.5(--4) cm, glabrescent or minutely glandular. Calyx 3--4 mm, parted to 1/3; lobes ovate to broadly ovate, ciliolate, apex obtuse; veins 3. Corolla pink or purple, 8--9 mm in diam.; lobes broadly obovate, margin entire to obscurely emarginate. Fl. Jun-Jul.

* Grassy mountain slopes, open woodlands, in Rhododendron thickets; 3000--4000 m. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan.