花葶毛茛 hua ting mao gen

Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous. Scape 4.2--7 cm, sparsely puberulent. Leaves all basal, 3 or 4; petiole 1.5--3.6 cm, glabrous; leaf blade 3-sect, broadly ovate or semiorbicular, sometimes undivided and then oblong, 1--2.5 × 2--3.2 mm, papery, glabrous, base truncate-cordate, subtruncate, or broadly cuneate, central segment obovate, narrowly obovate, or elliptic, margin entire; lateral segments obliquely obovate, unequally 2-lobed or undivided. Flowers solitary, terminal, 0.6--0.7 cm in diam. Receptacle glabrous. Sepals 5, elliptic or obovate, 2--2.5 mm, glabrous. Petals 5, elliptic-obovate, 2.5--3.2 × 1.5--1.8 mm, nectary pit without a scale, apex rounded. Stamens 6 or 7; anthers oblong. Carpels ca. 15, glabrous; style ca. 1/2 as long as ovary. Fl. Jul.

Gravelly slopes; 4500--4800 m. SE Xizang [Nepal].