Saxifraga chrysantha Franchet, Pl. Delavay. 236. 1890, not A. Gray (1877); Hirculus chrysanthoides (Engler & Irmscher) Losinskaja.

Herbs perennial, 1-3 cm tall. Shoots branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem brown pilose. Rosette leaves suboblanceolate, ca. 6 × 1.5 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous, 3-veined, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate distally, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate. Cauline leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 4-8 × 1-1.3 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous, 3-veined, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate distally, apex mucronate. Flower solitary; pedicel 5-10 mm, brown pilose. Sepals spreading to reflexed, oblong, 2.9-4 × ca. 1.5 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces glabrous, veins 5, confluent at apex, margin often setose-ciliate distally. Petals yellow, elliptic, 5-6 × 2-3 mm, not callose, 5-veined, base abruptly narrowed into a claw ca. 0.8 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 2-3 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, 2-2.5 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Rock crevices and screes; 2700-5300 m. NW Yunnan (Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian, Zhongdian Xian).