线叶小报春 xian ye xiao bao chun

Herbs perennial, efarinose, forming dense mats of leaf rosettes. Leaves sessile or nearly so, linear to subulate, 6--10 X ca. 1 mm, base scarcely narrower, margin entire, apex acute. Pedicel hidden in leaves, less than 3 mm. Flowers solitary, erect, homostylous. Calyx green, narrowly cup-shaped, ca. 3.5 mm, parted slightly below middle; lobes narrowly oblong to subligulate, apex rounded to obtuse. Corolla rose-purple; tube ca. 8 mm, sparsely pubescent inside; limb ca. 8 mm wide; lobes narrowly obovate, ca. 4 mm, abaxially puberulous, deeply emarginate. Stamens ca. 2 mm above base of corolla tube. Style ca. 2 mm, scarcely reaching level of calyx. Capsule narrowly cylindric. Fl. Jul.

* Damp mossy rocks; 4500--4800 m. SE Xizang