刚毛虎耳草 gang mao hu er cao

Hirculus oreophilus (Franchet) Losinskaja.

Stem many branched, 7-12 cm tall, proximally eglandular hairy, distally glandular hairy. Leaf buds present in axils of proximal, median, or distal cauline leaves and bracts. Proximal cauline leaves scalelike, 1-2 mm. Median cauline leaves sessile, oblong or narrowly so to narrowly subobovate, 0.5-1.5 cm × 1-1.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin recurved, eglandular or glandular ciliate, apex rigidly aristate. Flower solitary or cyme 2-4-flowered; pedicels 8-12 mm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate, 3-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, abaxially glandular hairy, veins 5-7, confluent into a verruca at apex, margin ± glabrous, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, ovate or elliptic, 4.5-5 × 2-2.7 mm, 2-4-callose, 4-7-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 1 mm, apex subobtuse or acute. Stamens 3.5-5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm; styles 2-3 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep.

* Rocky slopes and crevices; 2600-3200 m. N Yunnan (Eryuan Xian, Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian, Qiaojia Xian).