西康金腰 xi kang jin yao

Herbs 3.5-4.5 cm tall. Stems brown papillose at leaf axils, elsewhere glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-3.1 mm; leaf blade broadly ovate, 2-4 × 2.5-6 mm, glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin 6-crenate. Cyme 0.8-1.1 cm, ca. 3-flowered; bracteal leaves with petiole 2-3 mm, brown papillose at axil, leaf blade broadly ovate to flabellate, 4-4.6 × 4.2-5.6 mm, subcarnose, base broadly cuneate, margin 5- or 6-crenate. Pedicel very short, glabrous. Sepals erect, orbicular-square to broadly suborbicular, 1.5-1.9 × 2-3 mm, glabrous, apex subtruncate. Stamens 1-1.5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior. Disc obscure. Capsule 4-4.4 mm; carpels subequal; rostrums ca. 0.6 mm. Seeds dark brown, shiny, ovoid, ca. 1 mm, smooth, glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Scree slopes; 3700-4100 m. SE Xizang, NW Yunnan.