Androsace thomsonii - Alpine Roundleaf Rock Jasmine

Alpine Roundleaf Rock Jasmine is a slender glandular-finely velvet-hairy perennial herb. Flowers are about 6.5 mm across, petals shallowly notched, 3-4 mm long, exceeding the sepals. Sepal-cup is 3-5 mm long, bell-shaped, glandular-finely velvet-hairy; sepals 2-3 mm long, triangular-ovate. Ovary is nearly spherical. Style is less than 1 mm long, stigma head-like. Flowering stems are 1-15 in number, 2.5-9.5 cm long, glandulose, varrying 4-13-flowered umbels. Bracts are entire, 2.5-6 mm long. Flower-stalks are 2-8 mm long, glandulose. Leaves are 4.5-12.5 x 7-20 mm, finely velvet-hairy, kidney-shaped-heart-shaped, sharply toothed, more or less membranous. Leaf-stalks are up to 7 cm long, slender, finely velvet-hairy-glandular. Capsules are nearly spherical, enclosed in the sepal-cup. Alpine Roundleaf Rock Jasmine is found in high and dry areas, in Gilgit, Baltistan, West Himalaya and W. Tibet, at altitudes of 3300-3500 m. Flowering: June-August.