Larix griffithii Masters (1902), not J. D. Hooker (1854); L. thibetica Franchet.

First-year long branchlets red-brown, purplish brown, or yellowish brown. Short branchlets slender, densely hairy at apex. Seed cones 3-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm. Seed scales 35-65, thin, 0.8-1.3 cm, ± tuberculate and pubescent abaxially.

* Mountains, river basins; 2500-4000 m. S Gansu, Sichuan, N Yunnan