短茎虎耳草 duan jing hu er cao

Herbs perennial, 2-4 cm tall. Shoots numerous, with leaf rosettes. Stem slender, glandular hairy. Rosette leaves imbricate, narrowly obovate-spatulate, abaxially convex, adaxially concave, 3-4 × 1-1.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin setose-ciliate, apex acute, aristate. Cauline leaves 3 or 4, obovate, oblong, or linear, 3-4 × 1-1.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin setose-ciliate, apex acute, aristate. Flower solitary; bracts similar to cauline leaves, ca. 3.4 × 1.8 mm; pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm, densely glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate to oblong, 3-3.5 × 1.5-2.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, veins 3, not confluent at apex, margin setose-ciliate, apex obtuse. Petals white, pink at base, obovate to narrowly so, 5-8 × 2.5-4 mm, not callose, 3-5-veined, base gradually narrowed into a claw 1-1.2 mm, apex rounded or retuse. Stamens ca. 3 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm; styles ca. 2.2 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Rocky hillsides; 4400-4700 m. SE Xizang.