近加拉虎耳草 jin jia la hu er cao

Saxifraga stella-aurea J. D. Hooker & Thomson var. ciliata C. Marquand & Airy Shaw.

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 4.2-9 cm tall. Shoots branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem dark brown glandular hairy. Rosette leaves oblanceolate-linear, 5.2-8 × ca. 1 mm, subcar-nose, both surfaces glabrous or glandular or eglandular villous, margin and apex setose-villous, apex mucronate. Cauline leaves with leaf blade oblong to linear, 2.8-5 × 0.6-1.6 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous or dark brown glandular hairy, margin dark brown glandular ciliate, apex obtuse. Flower solitary, rarely cyme 2- or 3-flowered; pedicel slender, 0.8-1.5 cm, dark brown glandular villous. Sepals erect, broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 2-2.5 × 1.2-2.3 mm, leathery, abaxially and marginally dark brown glandular hairy, veins 3-5, not confluent at apex. Petals yellow, obscurely orange-yellow spotted, pandurate-oblong, 6.2-9.2 × 2-3.1 mm, 4-6-callose, 3-veined, base usually rounded to cuneate, with a claw 0.2-1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 4.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, ca. 2.1 mm; styles ca. 1.9 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

Picea forests, rock crevices; 3700-4600 m. E Xizang (Qamdo Xian, Riwoqê Xian, Zayü Xian), NW Yunnan (Gongshan Drung-Nu Zu Zizhixian) [N Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim].