繁缕虎耳草 fan lu hu er cao

Hirculus stellariifolius (Franchet) Losinskaja.

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 7-35 cm tall. Stem brown crisped glandular villous. Basal and proximal cauline leaves deciduous at anthesis; median and distal ones with petiole 2-10 mm, margin brown glandular villous at base; leaf blade ovate, 3-12 × 1.9-7 mm, abaxially and marginally glandular pilose, adaxially glabrous or glandular pilose, base usually rounded, apex subobtuse or acute. Flower solitary, or cyme corymbose, 1-2.5 cm, and 2-6-flowered; pedicels 2-12 mm, brown glandular pilose. Sepals spreading to reflexed, subelliptic to ovate, 2.9-4.5 × 2-2.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, veins 3-5, not confluent at apex, margin glabrous or glandular ciliate, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, ovate to elliptic, 5-8 × 3-3.6 mm, 4-6-callose, 3-5-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.6-1.1 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 4.7-6 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 3-4.2 mm; styles 1-1.8 mm. Capsule ca. 8.6 mm; seeds ovoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Forests, alpine meadows; 3000-4300 m. W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.