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Saxifraga engleriana H. Smith

藏南虎耳草

Description from Flora of China

Saxifraga zangnanensis J. T. Pan.

Herbs perennial, 1.5-3.5 cm tall. Shoots branched. Flowering stem brown crisped villous. Cauline leaves clustered into a rosette near middle of stem, remote proximally and distally on stem, subspatulate or narrowly subobovate to broadly elliptic, 2.2-5.2 × 1-2.2 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous on proximal leaves, margin proximally setose-ciliate on distal leaves, apex obtuse to subobtuse. Flower solitary; pedicel 4.1-7 mm, whitish crisped pilose. Sepals erect, then spreading, broadly ovate to subelliptic, abaxially convex, adaxially concave, 1.9-2.6 × 1.2-1.7 mm, carnose, glabrous, veins 3, confluent at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, elliptic to broadly so, 3-4.1 × 2-2.5 mm, 2-callose, 3- or 4-veined, base with a claw 0.4-1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 2.5-4.2 mm. Ovary semi-inferior, broadly conical, 2.3-4 mm, with an annular nectary disc; styles 1.2-2 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul. 2n = 16.

Alpine meadows, screes, rock crevices; 4100-4700 m. S Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].


 

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