Plants perennial, glabrous or pubescent herbs; rootstocks short, leafy. Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite or subopposite, 8-9, ovate-oblong, (8-)10-32 x 7-22 mm, lower surfaces glandular, punctate. Racemes terminal, 4-12(-15)-flowered, pendent; scapes fairly stout; bracts lanceolate, (3-)4-9 mm long; bracteoles smaller and narrower, glabrous. Pedicels 5-22 mm long; calyces truncate or 5-fid, campanulate, 4.5-6 (-7) mm long, 5-ribbed, persistent; corollas rosy-pink with a yellow throat, deciduous, tubes 3-3.5 cm long, abruply dilated towards base, lobes 5, spreading; obtuse; stamens 4, about 20 mm long, with a fifth staminode, filaments arched, anthers oblong, about 2.5 mm long, spreading, villous, connective produced into an obtuse short appendage; ovaries broad-linear, 5-6 mm long, styles filiform, 24-26 mm long, stigmapatelliform, 2-2.5mm long. Capsules broad-linear, 12-18(-20) x 0.4-0.45 cm; seeds many, linear-oblong, 2-2.5 mm long, produced and fibrillate at both ends horizontally, rugose-papillate.
Incarvillea emodii is native to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, India, and possibly southwestern China (see GBIF). It grows in rock crevices at 600-2700 m. It is an attractive plant, one worth cultivating.