微虎耳草 wei hu er cao

Micranthes parvula (Engler & Irmscher) Losinskaja.

Stem 2.7-4 cm tall, slender, crisped villous. Leaves spatulate, 1.4-1.8 cm × 6.5-8 mm, leathery, crisped villous abaxially and adaxially distally, base gradually narrowed, margin 7-9-serrate, ciliate, apex subobtuse. Inflorescence 1- or 2-flowered; pedicels 5-13 mm, crisped villous. Sepals spreading, ovate to triangular-ovate, 2.5-2.8 × 2.3-3 mm, subcarnose, veins 3, confluent into a verruca at apex, margin sparsely ciliate, apex subobtuse. Petals white, proximally 2-spotted, ovate to elliptic, 3-3.5 × 2.4-2.6 mm, 3-veined, base with a claw ca. 0.5 mm, apex subobtuse. Stamens ca. 2 mm; filaments ± clavate; anthers black. Ovary up to 1/3 inferior, tinged purple, broadly ovoid; nectary indistinct; styles ca. 0.3 mm thick. Capsule ovoid, ca. 7.5 mm; carpels divergent distally. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Alpine scrub meadows, alpine rock crevices; 3800-5700 m. NW Yunnan.