Androsace cylindrica, DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 22

15. A. cylindrica DC. in Lam. & DC., FI. Fr. ed. 3, 3: 439 (1805).

Densely caespitose perennial; stems somewhat irregularly branched, forming cushions. Leaves (4-)5-8(-10) x (1-)1-5-2-5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent with simple or forked hairs, densely imbricate, persistent after withering and forming columnar shoots. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 6-20 mm, densely pubescent; involucral bracts absent. Calyx 3-5 mm, pubescent. Corolla 7-9 mm in diameter, pink with a yellow throat. Seeds 2-3 mm. 2«=40. • C. Pyrenees. Ga Hs.

Plants from the same area forming more even hemispherical cushions, with leaves 1-1-5 mm wide and shorter pedicels, and with 2« = 40, have been called A. hirtella Dufour , Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 8: 100 (1856) and need further investigation.