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9. Solms-laubachia gamosepala Al-Shehbaz & G. Yang, Harvard Pap. Bot. 5: 380. 2001.
合萼丛菔 he e cong fu
Herbs perennial, forming woody cushions ca. 2 cm tall, very sparsely pilose with crisped trichomes to 0.5 mm; caudex covered with persistent leaves of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves 0.5-1.5 cm, becoming strongly thickened, persistent, ciliate; leaf blade spatulate or oblanceolate, 0.5-1.5 cm × 3-5 mm, subapically pilose, base cuneate, apex subacute. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicels erect ca. 7 mm. Sepals oblong, 2.5-3.5 × ca. 1 mm, united, membranous at apex, subapically sparsely pilose. Petals white, drying pink, oblanceolate, 5-6 × 1.5-2 mm; claw ca. 3 mm. Filaments of median staminal pairs ca. 4 mm, those of lateral pair ca. 3 mm; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm. Fruit lanceolate, 2.5-3 cm × 4-5 mm; valves glabrous, obscurely veined; septum complete; style ca. 1 mm; stigma entire. Seeds uniseriate, oblong, minutely reticulate, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun.
* Limestone scree; ca. 4700 m. Yunnan.
Solms-laubachia gamosepala is at present known only from the type collection, ACE 855 (K).
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