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20. Solms-laubachia pulcherrima Muschl., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 206. 1912. TYPE: China, NW Yunnan, E flank of Lichiang Range, 27°20¢ N, 12,000 ft [3,658 m], May 1906, G. Forrest 2164 (holotype, B!; isotypes, BM!, E!, P!).

Pegaeophyton sinense (Hemsl.) Hayek & Hand.-Mazz. var. stenophyllum O. E. Schulz, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 9: 477. 1926. TYPE: China, Yunnan, Yangtze watershed, Prefect. Distr. of Likiang, E slope of Likiang snow range, 5,300 m, 11 Aug. 1922, J. F.C. Rock 5719 (holotype, B!; isotypes, E!, GH!, P!, US!).

Parrya ciliaris Bureau & Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot) 5: 20. 1891; Solms-laubachia ciliaris (Bureau & Franchet) Botschantzev, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 169. 1955. TYPE: China, Tibet, route de Batang, 12 May 1890, M. Bonvalot & H. d'Orléans s.n. (holotype, P!).

Herbs 3-9 cm tall, glabrous to sparsely pubescent with crisped trichomes rarely to 1 mm; caudex covered with petioles of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves 0.7-2 cm, thickened, persistent, not ciliate; leaf blade lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, (0.5-)1.5-5.5(-7.5 cm ´ (1.5-)3-5(-7) mm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent with crisped trichomes, ciliate, base attenuate, margin entire, apex acute to obtuse; cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary; fruiting pedicel erect to ascending, 1.5-4.5(-5.5) cm. Sepals oblong to oblong-linear, 5-8(-10) ´ 1.5-2 mm, pubescent; petals pink, to light or turqoise blue, obovate to broadly so, (1.5-)1.7-2(-2.5) cm ´ (5-)6.5-8(-10) mm; claw (0.7-)1-1.5 mm; filaments of median staminal pairs 4-5.5 mm, those of lateral pair 2.5-3.5 mm; anthers 1.4-1.6 mm; ovules 8-10 per locule. Fruit lanceolate, 2.5-3.5(-4.5) cm ´ 7-11 mm; valves glabrous or sparsely pilose along margin, reticulate veined; septum complete; style obsolete; stigma entire to slightly lobed. Seeds biseriate, broadly ovate to orbicular, reticulate, 2.5-3.5 ´ 2-2.5 mm.

Flowering: May-Jul.

Habitat: scree, boulders, stony outcrop, limestone gravel or rock, crevices of limestone cliffs, stony moist meadows.

Elevation: 3300-5200 m.

Distribution: China (Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan).