Gentiana sarcorrhiza Ling & Ma ex T. N. Ho.

Perennials 1-4 cm tall. Roots fusiform, 1.5-4.5 cm × 3-4 mm, fleshy. Stems purple, erect, as high as to slightly higher than basal leaves, simple or apically few branched, cespitose, densely papillate. Leaves with petiole tube 0.7-1 mm, margin ciliolate, abaxially puberulent; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, abaxially glabrous, adaxially minutely and densely papillate, margin indistinctly cartilaginous and ciliate, apex acuminate and cuspidate, midvein prominent and densely hirsute. Basal leaves crowded, leaf blades 1.2-2.5 cm × 3-9 mm. Stem leaves 1-3 pairs, widely spaced; leaf blade 4-10 × 1.5-2.5 mm. Flowers 1-3, subsessile. Calyx narrowly obconic, 5-7 mm, tube outside puberulent; lobes linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm, outside glabrous, margin cartilaginous and densely ciliate, midvein prominent and hirsute, apex acuminate and cuspidate, apically puberulent. Corolla pale blue-purple, funnelform, 1-1.5 cm; lobes ovate, 2-3 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse; plicae ovate-oblong, 1.5-2 mm, margin denticulate, apex truncate. Stamens inserted at middle of corolla tube, equal; filaments 2.5-3 mm; anthers linear, 2-2.2 mm. Style 0.8-1 mm; stigma lobes semiorbicular. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 2.5-3 mm; gynophore to 7 mm. Seeds brown, ellipsoid, 0.6-1 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jul.

Gentiana napulifera is similar to G. loureiroi. Although T. N. Ho recognizes both as distinct species, J. S. Pringle considers G. napulifera to be synonymous with G. loureiroi.

* Grassland slopes; 1500-1900 m. SW Sichuan, C and NW Yunnan