山生虎耳草 shan sheng hu er cao

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 6.5-15 cm tall. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette; leaf blade obovate-spatulate, ca. 9 × 4.5 mm, leathery, both surfaces and margin glandular hairy, apex subobtuse. Cauline leaves lanceolate or oblong to elliptic, 6-11 × 3-7 mm, both surfaces and margin glandular hairy, apex subobtuse. Flower solitary or cyme 2- or 3-flowered; pedicels densely glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate to narrowly so, 5.4-5.5 × 2-3 mm, carnose, glandular hairy abaxially, adaxially distally, and marginally, veins 5, not confluent at apex, apex subacute. Petals yellow, narrowly obovate, 1-1.3 cm × 4-4.2 mm, not callose, 5-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 1.3 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 3.4-5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior, ovoid, 2.5-2.7 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep.

* Hill tops, alpine lakesides; 4200-4500 m. SW Sichuan.