鞭枝虎耳草 bian zhi hu er cao

Stem 4-11 cm tall, glandular pubescent. Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, sparsely glandular hairy. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, obovate to oblanceolate, 0.5-10 cm, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular ciliate, apex acute. Cauline leaves subelliptic to linear-oblong, 12-20 × 2.0-3.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular ciliate, apex acute, mucronate. Cyme corymbose, compact, 2-4-flowered, or flower solitary; pedicels ca. 1 mm, sparsely glandular hairy. Sepals spreading, oblong, 4.5-5 × ca. 2 mm, glabrous, veins 3-5, confluent into a verruca at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, broadly elliptic to obovate, 5-7 × 3.5-5 mm, 2-callose, 5-veined, base abruptly narrowed into a claw ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ca. 2 mm; styles ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug.

* Cliffs, humus-covered boulders; 3700-4000 m. SW Sichuan (Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian).