Chamaerhodos klementzii Muravjeva, p.p.

Herbs perennial. Flowering stems many, tufted, erect or ascending, unbranched, 5–18 cm tall, woody at base, pilose or glabrous. Radical leaves 1.5–4 cm, villous and glandular hairy; stipules linear, 4–5 mm, margin entire; petiole 1.5–2 cm; leaf blade once 3-parted; segments linear, entire or 2- or 3-sect; lower cauline leaves shortly petiolate, upper ones sessile; leaf blade 3–5-fid. Inflorescence paniculate, dichasially branched, many flowered; peduncle and pedicels slightly glandular hairy; bracts and bracteoles linear, 2–4 mm, pilose. Flowers 5–6 mm in diam.; pedicel 3–5 mm. Hypanthium tubular, 3–4 mm, abaxially pubescent at base, 10-veined. Sepals triangular-ovate, ca. 2 mm, pilose and glandular hairy, apex acuminate. Petals pink, obovate, 4–6 mm, glabrous, base tapering into a cuneate claw, apex rounded. Filaments shorter than petals, glabrous. Carpels 6–10, free. Achenes cylindric, ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug.

Meadows on mountain slopes. Heilongjiang [Mongolia, Russia].