巴格虎耳草 ba ge hu er cao

Stem 1.5-4 cm tall, glandular hairy, glands globose. Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, ca. 10 cm, glandular hairy, apex gemmiferous. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, narrowly obovate or subspatulate to oblong, 6-8 × 2.2-2.6 mm, subcarnose, glandular hairy (glands globose), apex mucronate. Cauline leaves remote, suboblanceolate, 9-10 × ca. 2.3 mm, subcarnose, usually glandular hairy, rarely glabrous adaxially, apex mucronate. Flower solitary or cyme 2- or 3-flowered; pedicels 5.6-7.5 mm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate or lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3.3-5 × 1.4-2 mm, subcarnose, abaxially and marginally glandular hairy (glands globose), adaxially glabrous or distally glandular hairy, veins 3-5, not, partly, or fully confluent at apex, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, obovate to oblanceolate, 6.8-8 × 2.2-4 mm, 2-callose, 5-10-veined, base with a claw 0.2-1.3 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 2.5-4.4 mm. Ovary semi-inferior, 2.8-6.4 mm, with an annular nectary disc; styles 1.5-2 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Alpine meadows, rock clefts; 5100-5300 m. SW Xizang (Burang Xian).