葶苈虎耳草 ting li hu er cao

Hirculus drabiformis (Franchet) Losinskaja.

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 6-9.5 cm tall. Shoots branched. Sterile branches with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem glabrous proximally, dark brown glandular hairy distally. Rosette leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, 5-6.2 × ca. 1.5 mm, carnose, glabrous, base gradually narrowed, apex subobtuse. Flowering stem leaves remote, narrowly obovate to oblong, 5.6-10 × 1.5-3 mm, largest near middle of stem, carnose, both surfaces glabrous on proximal leaves, margin dark brown glandular hairy on distal leaves, apex subobtuse. Flower solitary; pedicel 1.5-3 cm, sparsely dark brown glandular hairy. Sepals reflexed, broadly ovate to broadly subelliptic, abaxially and marginally sparsely dark brown glandular hairy, veins 5-7, partly or fully confluent at apex, apex obtuse or subacute. Petals yellow, broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, 7.3-8 × 5-6 mm, 4-6(-7)-callose, 3-6-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.8-1.1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 5.5-6 mm. Ovary superior, subglabrous, 3-3.6 mm in diam.; styles 1.2-1.9 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Rock crevices and screes; 3300-4900 m. NW Yunnan (Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian, Zhongdian Xian).