林芝虎耳草 lin zhi hu er cao

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 4-24 cm tall. Stem brown crisped glandular villous. Basal leaves mostly caducous; petiole 7-12 mm, margin glandular villous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 5-10 × 2.3-3 mm, glandular villous. Cauline leaves 13-23; petiole 0.5-4 mm, margin glandular villous; leaf blade lanceolate to linear-oblong, 0.8-1.3 cm × 2.2-5 mm, long and shortly glandular pilose. Cyme corymbose, 1.6-4.5 cm, 2-9-flowered; pedicels 9-9.3 mm, dark brown glandular villous. Sepals erect, ovate to narrowly so, 4-5.6 × 2-3 mm, abaxially and marginally brown glandular hairy, veins 3-5, not, partly, or fully confluent at apex, apex acute. Petals yellow, subelliptic or obovate-oblong to subpandurate, 7-9.8 × 3-4.2 mm, 4-8-callose, 5-8-veined, base cordate to subtruncate, with a claw 0.8-1 mm, apex retuse. Stamens 4-5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 2.5-4 mm; styles 2-2.1 mm; stigmas prominent. Fl. Jul-Oct.

* Forest margins, scrub, alpine meadows, earthy slopes, rock crevices; 3700-4700 m. SE Xizang (Mêdog Xian, Nyingchi Xian).