Botanical name: Shivparvatia glanduligera    Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Arenaria glanduligera, Solitaria glanduligera, Dichodon glanduligerum

Glandular Sandwort is a perennial herb with stems clustered, yellow, lustrous, slender, 2-6 cm, white glandular hairy distally. Flowers are borne singly or in pairs, at branch-ends. Petals are 5, pale white or violet, obovate or ovate-elliptic, 5-7 x 2-3 mm, tip blunt. Sepals are 5, spreading or excurved, lanceshaped or ovate-lanceshaped, 4-5 x about 1.5 mm, glandular hairy below, tip blunt or pointed. Stamens are 10; filaments about 3 mm; anthers greenish or yellow. Styles are 3, linear, pillar-shaped or club-shaped. bracts similar to leaves but smaller. Flower-stalks are yellow, slender, 0.5-2 cm, sparsely white hairy. Leaves are greenish, ovate-lanceshaped, ovate, or elliptic-round, flat, 5-6 x 2-3 mm, both surfaces white glandular velvet-hairy, veins inprominent, base narrowed into leaf-stalk, margin fringed with hairs, tip pointed or tapering. Glandular Sandwort is found in alpine meadows, shifting screes, at altitudes of 4500-5500 m, from Himalaya to Tibet.

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