Authors: Boiss.
Densely cushion-forming, blue-grey to grey-green. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 2-4cm long, 2-3mm wide. Flower spikes loosely distichously branched, the main stem somewhat zig-zag. Calyx white with bright purple veins, petals pink, A.a. var. balansae (syn. A. balansae and A. haussknechtii) have leaves up to 1.5mm wide, Turkey, Syria, Russian Armenia, on stony slopes at 500-2700m.
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