道孚虎耳草 dao fu hu er cao

Micranthes lumpuensis (Engler) Losinskaja.

Stem 5-27 cm tall, white pilose. Petiole 1-5.7 cm, pilose; leaf blade ovate, broadly so, or oblong, 0.6-2.5 × 0.6-2.1 cm, adaxially pilose, base truncate or cuneate to cordate, margin crenate and ciliate, rarely subentire, apex obtuse. Inflorescence narrowly paniculate to ± cylindric, 3-17 cm, 11-56-flowered; branches and pedicels white pilose; bracts ovate to narrowly so, 0.6-2.5 × 0.5-2.7 cm, adaxially pilose, base cordate to truncate, margin crenate, apex acute. Sepals spreading to reflexed, lilac, triangular-ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-1.6 mm, glabrous, 1-veined, apex acute or subacuminate. Petals red or purple, ovate to narrowly so, 2.4-4.3 × 0.7-1.3 mm, 1(or 3)-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.2-1 mm, apex acute. Stamens 1.2-1.5 mm; filaments subulate. Ovary semi-inferior, ovoid, with a thick, annular, 10-lobed nectary; styles ca. 0.8 mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. 3.5 × 3 mm; carpels distally divergent. Fl. Jun-Jul.

* Forests, slopes, alpine meadows, by water; 3500-4100 m. S Gansu, W Sichuan.