Xizang (Tibet): Changdu (Chamdo) Xian.
Old road from Changdu (Chamdo) to Toba and Jiangda (Gyamda) on Damala Shan.
Meadow and dwarf (< 50 cm tall) Rhododendron nivale subsp. boreale thickets with Potentilla fruticosa and P. glabra.
31°11'46"N,
97°19'13"E;
4540-4650 m.
In open gravelly area in meadow.Bracts pale green, tinge light purple in center; old corollas dark purple. With the wider leaves of plants from Tibet.
David E. Boufford, Bruce Bartholomew, Deren A. Eaton, Xin-Hui LI, Richard H. Ree, Bo XU, Ji-Pei YUE, Jian-Wen ZHANG & Xin-Xin ZHU