短茎粉报春 duan jing fen bao chun

Herbs perennial, with 0.5--1.5 cm stolons terminating in a leaf rosette. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole nearly as long as leaf blade; leaf blade spatulate to narrowly obovate, 8--20 X 6--9 mm, abaxially cream-white or cream-yellow farinose, adaxially scarcely farinose or nearly efarinose, base attenuate, margin sharply incised-serrate, apex subrounded. Scapes 0.8--2.5 cm, ± farinose, 1- or 2-flowered; bracts usually 2, linear to linear-lanceolate, 5--12 mm. Pedicel 6--9 mm, sparingly farinose. Flowers homostylous. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 8--10 mm, cream-yellow farinose outside, parted to middle or slightly below, 5-veined; lobes lanceolate, apex acute. Corolla deep purple; tube 1.5--1.6 cm; limb 1.5--2.2 cm wide; lobes obovate, emarginate. Stamens toward apex of corolla tube. Style slightly exserted. Capsule oblong, 6--7 mm. Fl. May-Jun.

* In shaded rock crevices of gneiss and granite cliffs; ca. 3600 m. SE Xizang.