楔叶山莓草 xie ye shan mei cao

Sibbaldia taiwanensis H. L. Li.

Herbs perennial, woody based. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5–14 cm tall, appressed or subappresed pilose. Radical leaves 1.5–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely strigose; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets usually shortly petiolulate or subsessile, green on both surfaces, broadly obovate or elliptic, 0.8–2.5 × 0.6–1.8 cm, both surfaces sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin 3–5-dentate, apex truncate; teeth ovate, apex acute or obtuse; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones but leaflets smaller; stipules green, lanceolate, herbaceous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, compact, corymbose. Flowers 5–7 mm in diam. Sepals ovate or oblong, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, equaling sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral. Achenes glabrous. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.

Alpine meadows, rock crevices; 3400--4500 m. Qinghai, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan [Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Sikkim].