Saxifraga brachyphylla Franch.

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 11-50 cm tall. Stem proximally brown crisped glandular villous, distally dark brown glandular hairy and leafless. Basal leaves caducous; petiole 6-9 mm, crisped glandular villous at margin; leaf blade subobovate to elliptic, 4.6-8 × 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous, sometimes pilose. Cauline leaves sessile or subsessile; most proximal one caducous; median ones denser, ovate, 4-6 × 3-4 mm, glabrous except sometimes glandular hairy at basal margin, base truncate, apex acute; distal leaves sparser, lanceolate to oblong, ca. 6 × 2 mm, glandular hairy, apex acute. Cyme 1.7-9 cm, 2-14-flowered; pedicels 3-14 mm, glandular hairy. Sepals reflexed, ovate, 2.1-2.5 × 1.2-1.5 mm, dark brown glandular hairy abaxially and sparsely so at distal margin, veins 3, not confluent at apex, apex acute. Petals yellow, oblong, 4-5 × 2-2.1 mm, 4-callose, 3-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.4-0.6 mm, apex subobtuse. Stamens 3-3.4 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, 1.9-2 mm; styles 0.8-1 mm. Fl. Aug-Oct.

Yunnan (Dongchuan Shi, Eryuan Xian, Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian).

* Wet meadows, slopes; 2500-3700 m.

Saxifraga swertiiflora H. Léveillé.