Phaeonychium parryoides (Kurz ex Hook. fil. & T. Anderson) O. E. Schulz

The illustration of Phaeonychium parryoides in FRPS is based on a plant of P. jafrii, but the trichomes were erroneously drawn.

Perennial, erect or suberect, densely pubescent or tomentose with minute stellate or branched hairs. Scapes 10-30 cm long, in fruit, leafless. Radical leaves rosulate, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 40-90 mm long, 4-7 mm broad, apparently stalked, usually entire, densely pubescent. Racemes 15-20-flowered, ebracteate (rarely 1-2 bracteate below), lax, up to 20 cm long in fruit. Flowers 6-7 mm across, white, mauve with lilac bases usually; pedicels 15-25 mm long in fruit, erect. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Petals 7-8 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad. Stamens 3-4: 4-5 mm long. Siliquae c. 20 mm long, 2 mm broad, linear, flattened, often subcontorted, stellately pubescent. Valves with a distinct mid-vein; style c 1 mm long, with bibbed stigma; septum complete, not veined; seeds few, sub-orbicular.

Plants 9-25 cm tall; caudex often stout, woody, few branched, covered with petiolar bases of previous years. Trichomes short-stalked, dendritic. Stems erect, simple from caudex, tomentose. Basal leaves rosulate; petiole (0.5-)0.8-2(-4) cm, basally ciliate, becoming thickened and often subcorky, to 4 mm wide at base; leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate or linear, (0.5-)1-2.5(-4) cm × 1-4 mm, canescent, finely tomentose, base attenuate, margin entire, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Racemes (15-)20-35-flowered, ebracteate. Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending, straight, 0.8-2.5 cm, tomentose. Sepals oblong, 3-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, tomentose, persistent, margin membranous. Petals lavender or purplish, obovate, 7-9 × 3-4 mm, apex obtuse; claw 3-4 mm. Filaments purple, median pairs 2.5-4 mm, lateral pair ca. 2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.7-0.9 mm. Immature fruit linear, ca. 2 cm × 2 mm, flattened, sessile, subcontorted, constricted between seeds; valves finely tomentose; style 1-1.5 mm; stigma capitate, entire. Mature seeds not seen. Fl. Jun-Aug.

Himalaya (Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan), W. Tibet.

Distribution: Endemic to W. Tibet and Kashmir.

Xizang [Kashmir].

3800-4400 m

Fl. Per.: June July.

Dry hillsides; 3300-4200 m.

Cheiranthus parryoides Kurz ex J. D. Hooker & T. Anderson in J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 132. 1872.