Phaeonychium parryoides (Hook. f. & T. Anderson) O. Schulz in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 9: 1092. 1927. Cheiranthes parryoides Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 132. 1872.

Herbs, erect or suberect; rootstock up to 15 mm thick, densely covered with withered petiole bases; stems 5 - 15 cm long, white pubescent. Basal leaves linear-oblong to elliptic, entire, attenuate at base, acute or rounded at apex, 5 - 8 x 0.4 - 2.6 cm, densely tomentose. Racemes many-flowered, lax, up to 22 cm long in fruit. Flowers white or mauve with lilac base, ca 6 mm across; pedicels erect, 1.5 - 2.5 cm long in fruit, tomentose. Sepals elliptic, 3.5 - 4 x 1 - 1.5 mm, pubescent. Petals 7 - 8 x 3 - 4 mm, white with dark purple claw. Stamens ca 5 mm long. Style ca 1 mm long with bilobed stigma. Fruits linear, flattened, ca 2 cm long, stellately ca 2 mm thick, grey-pubescent; valve with a distinct midvein.

Fl. & Fr. June - July.

Distrib. India: Rocky cliffs, 3000 - 3700 m. Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Pakistan, Bhutan and China (W. Tibet).