Saxifraga smithiana Irmsch.

Herbs perennial, 26-34 cm tall. Stem brown pilose proximally, brown glandular hairy distally. Basal and proximal cauline leaves caducous; distal cauline leaves with petiole 0.2-2.5 cm, gradually shorter distally on stem until nearly absent, brown pilose at margin; leaf blade cordate-ovate to narrowly ovate, 1.1-2.7 × 0.4-1.7 cm, glabrous or brown pilose only at margin, base cordate to rounded, apex subacuminate. Flower solitary or cyme 2.3-4.5 cm and 5-7-flowered; pedicels 0.7-1.3 cm, brown glandular hairy. Sepals reflexed, subovate, 3.3-4 × ca. 2 mm, glabrous or subglabrous, veins 4 or 5, not confluent at apex, apex erose. Petals yellow, orange spotted, elliptic to broadly so, 5.6-6.5 × 3.3-4.8 mm, 6-callose, 3-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 0.8 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, ca. 2.7 mm; styles ca. 1.3 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep.

NW Yunnan (Jianchuan Xian, Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian).

* Alpine meadows, rock crevices on slopes; 3700-4000 m.