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2. Saxifraga sect. Irregulares Haworth, Misc. Nat.  158.  1803.  
石荷叶组 shi he ye zu 
 
 
 
 
Diptera Borkhausen. 
Herbs perennial, forming erect individuals, lacking basal bulbils. Leaves alternate, all basal, petiolate; leaf blade herbaceous or leathery, lacking chalk glands, margin lobed; foliar crystals present mainly as druses. Flowering stem usually scapose; inflorescence cymose. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, 5-merous. Petals white or pink, not callose. Filaments clavate; pollen 2-nucleate, exine tectum smooth. Carpels connate at least proximally, dehiscing distally in fruit. Ovary superior. Integuments 2. 
About ten species: China, Japan; seven species (four endemic) in China. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        
                         
		
                          
                          
			
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  Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, filiform | 
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  20 S. stolonifera | 
 
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  Stolons absent. | 
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  Leaf blade peltate or ovate to broadly so, or elliptic to oblong, abaxially sometimes brown spotted. | 
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  Leaf blade reniform to orbicular, abaxially usually concolorous. | 
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  Leaf blade peltate or ovate to broadly so, abaxially brown spotted | 
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  18 S. mengtzeana | 
 
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  Leaf blade elliptic to oblong | 
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  14 S. kwangsiensis | 
 
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  Leaf blade with foliar embryos in sinus adaxially | 
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  19 S. epiphylla | 
 
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  Leaf blade without foliar embryos. | 
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  Longest petal serrate at margin | 
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  17 S. fortunei | 
 
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  Flowering stem and inflorescence reddish long glandular villous | 
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  15 S. rufescens | 
 
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  Flowering stem and inflorescence shortly glandular pubescent | 
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  16 S. imparilis | 
 
 
 
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