齿瓣虎耳草 chi ban hu er cao

Plants 24-40 cm tall. Petiole 5-18.5 cm, glandular villous; leaf blade reniform to subcordate, 3.3-16 × 3.8-20 cm, abaxially glandular villous, palmately veined, base cordate, margin 7-11-lobed; lobes broadly ovate, margin irregularly dentate, glandular ciliate, apex obtuse or acute. Scape red-brown crisped glandular villous. Inflorescence paniculate, 11.5-32 cm, ca. 35-flowered; branches slender, 6-6.5 cm, glandular hairy; bracts narrowly triangular, 7-8 mm, abaxially and marginally glandular villous. Sepals spreading to reflexed, subovate, 1-3.5 × 0.9-1.5 mm, abaxially (or both surfaces) and marginally glandular hairy, veins 3 and confluent at apex or 1, apex obtuse or acute. Petals 5, white to reddish; shortest 3 petals ovate, 1.3-4.1 × 0.9-1.7 mm, 3-veined, base rounded, with a claw 0.2-0.3 mm, margin glandular ciliate or glabrous, apex subacuminate or acuminate; longer petal narrowly ovate, 0.7-1.7 cm × 2-5.3 mm, 3-7-veined, base with a claw 0.2-0.6 mm, margin glandular ciliate or glabrous, apex acuminate; longest petal narrowly ovate, 1.2-2.4 cm × 2.8-6.5 mm, 3-8(-14)-veined, base gradually contracted into a claw 0.6-1.5 mm, margin serrate or entire, glandular ciliate or glabrous, apex acuminate or subacuminate. Stamens 4-5 mm. Carpels 3.2-4 mm; ovary ovoid; styles divergent. Fl. Jun-Jul.

Forests, rock crevices; 2200-2900 m. Hubei, S Jilin, Liaoning, Sichuan [Korea].

Lower Taxa

• Saxifraga fortunei var. fortunei
• Saxifraga fortunei var. koraiensis Nakai