Saxifraga strigosa Wall.

Stem branched or simple, 5.5-28 cm tall, proximally densely crisped eglandular villous, distally glandular hairy. Leaf buds present in axils of rosette leaves and bracts, often replacing flowers. Proximal cauline leaves less than 1/2 size of median ones, ca. 3 mm. Median cauline leaves aggregated into a rosette; petiole 2-10 mm, margin long glandular hairy; leaf blade ovate, obovate, or elliptic to oblong, 0.6-2.7 cm × 4-13 mm, both surfaces strigose, base tapered into petiole, margin 2- or 3(-9)-dentate. Proximal and distal cauline leaves more remote and smaller than median ones, 3-8.5 × 1.2-4 mm. Flower solitary or cyme 3-10-flowered; branches often 1-flowered; bracts lanceolate, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, strigose; pedicels 0.6-1.9 cm, dark purple glandular hairy. Sepals erect to spreading, ultimately reflexed, ovate to elliptic, 2-3 × 0.9-2.6 mm, abaxially strigose, veins 3-7, confluent into a verruca at apex, margin ± glabrous, apex acute. Petals white, spotted reddish brown, ovate to broadly so or elliptic, 3.8-5.5 × 1.4-2.6 mm, 2-4-callose, 3-7-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.7-1.3 mm, apex obtuse to acute. Stamens 2.3-4.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid to broadly so, 1.3-2.2 mm; styles 0.5-2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct. 2n = 16*, 32*.

Himalaya (Kumaun to Bhutan), N. Assam, Burma, W. China.

W Sichuan, S Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, N India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim].

2100-4200 m

Forests, forest margins, scrub, meadows, rock crevices; 1800-4200 m.

Hirculus strigosus (Wallich ex Seringe) Losinskaja; Saxifraga echinophora H. Léveillé; S. strigosa f. ramosa Engler & Irmscher; S. strigosa f. simplex Engler & Irmscher; S. strigosa f. subasexualis Engler & Irmscher.