舍季拉虎耳草 she ji la hu er cao

Herbs perennial, 29-45 cm tall. Stem proximally brown crisped villous, distally glandular hairy. Basal leaves with petiole 2.1-2.3 cm, adaxially and marginally brown crisped glandular villous; leaf blade subelliptic, 2.6-2.9 × 1.2-1.4 cm, adaxially proximally and marginally glandular pilose, base rounded, apex obtuse or acute. Proximal cauline leaves similar to basal ones; petiole long, gradually shorter to absent distally on stem; leaf blade lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1.8-3.6 cm × 5-10 mm, ± glandular pilose or shortly glandular hairy, base cuneate to subamplexicaul. Cyme 6-9 cm, 7-13-flowered; branches and pedicels shortly glandular hairy, glands dark brown. Sepals reflexed, ovate, 3.2-4.1 × 1.5-1.9 mm, glandular hairy abaxially and at proximal margin, veins 3, not confluent at apex, apex subobtuse, sometimes erose. Petals yellow, spotted, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 6-6.2 × 3.5-4 mm, 6- or 7-callose, 5-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.5-0.7 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 5.3 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ellipsoid, ca. 4 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep.

* Forest margins, rock crevices; ca. 4100 m. SE Xizang (Nyingchi Xian).