Parrya lanuginosa J. D. Hooker & Thomson, J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 5: 136. 1861; Christolea lanuginosa (J. D. Hooker & Thomson) Ovczinnikov; Draba lanjarica O. E. Schulz; Ermania lanuginosa (J. D. Hooker & Thomson) O. E. Schulz.

Herbs 3-5 cm tall; caudex slender, few branched. Trichomes simple, to 1 mm, mixed with distinctly stalked, 1-3-forked ones. Stems densely villous. Basal leaves rosulate, fleshy; petiole 2-7 mm, persistent, becoming papery; leaf blade suborbicular, spatulate, or oblong-obovate, 5-10 × 2-6 mm, sublanate with forked trichomes, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse or rounded. Cauline leaves absent. Racemes 8-15-flowered, ebracteate. Fruiting pedicels divaricate, straight, 4-7 mm, densely villous. Sepals oblong, 2-2.5 × 1-1.5 mm, pilose. Petals spatulate, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, apex obtuse; claw ca. 2 mm. Median filament pairs ca. 3 mm, lateral pair ca. 2 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 0.6 mm. Ovules ca. 8 per ovary. Fruit oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.7 cm × 6-10 mm, strongly flattened; valves glabrous, smooth, with obscure midvein and marginal veins, obtuse at base, acute at apex; septum perforated, reduced to a rim; style 0.2-0.4 mm; stigma minute, entire. Seeds biseriate, narrowly oblong, flattened, 2-2.5 × 1-1.3 mm; cotyledons accumbent.

After publication of the family treatment for the Flora of China, this was treated as Solms-laubachia lanuginosa (Hook. f. & Thomson) D. German & Al-Shehbaz (Nordic J. Bot. 28: 649. 2010).

* Slopes; 5100-5300 m. Xizang.