Saxifraga saginoides Hook. fil. & Thoms.

Herbs perennial, densely cespitose, cushion-shaped, 0.9-1.5 cm tall. Stem extremely short, 3-9 mm, brown crisped glandular villous. Basal leaves with petiole 3-4.8 mm, margin brown crisped glandular villous; leaf blade suboblong, 3-4 × ca. 1 mm, glabrous, apex subobtuse. Cauline leaves linear, thick, 4.9-6.8 × 0.8-1 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin brown crisped glandular villous at base. Flower solitary; pedicel 0.7-3 mm, densely brown crisped glandular villous. Sepals erect, ovate to subelliptic, 2.1-2.6 × ca. 1 mm, glabrous, veins 3 or 4, not confluent at apex, margin sometimes brown crisped glandular pilose at base, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, ovate to narrowly so, 3.4-4.4 × 1.5-1.9 mm, not or obscurely 2-callose, 3-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.7-0.8 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 1.5-2.9 mm. Ovary subsuperior, subovoid, ca. 1.5 mm; styles ca. 1.4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 32.

Himalaya (Garhwal to Bhutan), S. Tibet, W. China.

S Xizang [Bhutan, N India, Nepal, Sikkim].

4200-5200 m

Alpine scrub meadows, alpine meadows, rock crevices; 4300-5500 m.

Hirculus saginoides (J. D. Hooker & Thomson) Losinskaja.