Botanical name: Androsace baltistanica    Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)

Baltistan Rock Jasmine is a loosely clustered plant with leaf rosettes 0.5-1 cm broad, loose and up to 1 cm apart. Flowering stem is 1-4.7 cm long, slender, 1-3-flowered, velvet-hairy-hairy. Flowers are 6-9 mm across, white or pinkish, with a red eye. Petals are 3.3-3.5 mm long, obovate, flat-tipped. Sepal-cup is 2.2-3 mm long, hemispheric to bell-shaped, half cleft, green, hairy, sepals broad triangular, blunt. Bracts are 2-3 mm long, broad lanceshaped, hairy. Flower-stalks 2-2.5 times longer than the bract or equalling it. Leaves are isomorphic, outer ones 2.2-6 x 1.1-2.1 mm, marcescent, base often broad, grey-brown on drying, carina on undersurface faint. Inner leaves are 3.5-7 x 1.8 mm, erect, green, inverted-lanceshaped to lanceshaped-blunt, hairless to sparse velvet-hairy-glandulose on the upper surface. Baltistan Rock Jasmine is found on rocky slopes in Gilgit, Baltistan, Ladakh and W. Tibet, at altitudes of about 4000 m. Flowering: June-July.

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