Saxifraga brunonis Wall. ex Ser.

The specimens cited above are from the Kulu area and Kashmir in India, and it is likely that the species is also found in Pakistan. Stewart mentions a specimen, collected by Zaman from Siran Valley, in Hazara but this record needs confirmation.

Grows on boulders in moist and wet places at 3000-5000 m.

Herb, 5-10 cm high, with red, slender, leafless runners, terminating in a bud. Leaves basally crowded, sessile, 7-11 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, setose-ciliate, apex aristate, surfaces glabrous. Flowers yellow, 2-4, in corymbs. Pedicels 1-3 cm long, glandular. Sepals 3 mm long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, basally united. Petals 7 mm long, ovate. Capsule c. 4 mm long. Seeds ellipsoid, very minutely papillose.

Stem purple-brown, 6-16 cm, proximally glabrous, distally sparsely dark purple shortly glandular hairy. Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, purple-brown, 4-24 cm, sparsely dark purple glandular hairy. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, gray-green, shiny, oblong-ensiform, 1-1.3 cm × 1.9-2.5 mm, carnose, rigid, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex cartilaginous aristate. Cauline leaves remote, oblong-ensiform or subensate to suboblong, 0.7-1.3 cm × 1.9-2.5 mm, carnose, rigid, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex cartilaginous aristate. Cyme lax, 1-7 cm, 3-9-flowered; branches to 6.5 cm, sparsely dark brown shortly glandular hairy, 2- or 3-flowered; pedicels slender, 0.7-2.4 cm, sparsely dark brown shortly glandular hairy. Sepals spreading, ovate to broadly so, 2-2.3 × 1.2-2 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with 2 or 3 dark purple, glandular hairs abaxially proximally, veins 3-5, not, partly, or fully confluent at apex, apex subobtuse or acute. Petals yellow, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, 5-8 × 2.5-4 mm, obscurely 2-callose, 3-5-veined, base subclawed or with a claw ca. 1 mm, apex subobtuse or acute. Stamens 4.5-4.6 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ellipsoid, 1.9-2 mm; styles 1-1.2 mm. Capsule subglobose. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct. 2n = 16.

Stem 4-11 cm tall, glandular pubescent. Stolons arising from axils of basal leaves, sparsely glandular hairy. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, obovate to oblanceolate, 0.5-10 cm, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular ciliate, apex acute. Cauline leaves subelliptic to linear-oblong, 12-20 × 2.0-3.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular ciliate, apex acute, mucronate. Cyme corymbose, compact, 2-4-flowered, or flower solitary; pedicels ca. 1 mm, sparsely glandular hairy. Sepals spreading, oblong, 4.5-5 × ca. 2 mm, glabrous, veins 3-5, confluent into a verruca at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, broadly elliptic to obovate, 5-7 × 3.5-5 mm, 2-callose, 5-veined, base abruptly narrowed into a claw ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ca. 2 mm; styles ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), S. Tibet.

Distribution: Temperate Himalayas (Sikkim to Kashmir).

SW Sichuan (Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian), S Xizang, W Yunnan (Dali Xian) [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim].

SW Sichuan (Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian).

2400-5600 m

Fl.Per.: July-August.

Mossy rocks in woods, hillsides, alpine gullies; 2800-4000 m.

* Cliffs, humus-covered boulders; 3700-4000 m.

Hirculus brunonianus Losinskaja; Saxifraga brunoniana Sternberg, nom. illeg. (included S. brunonis); S. brunoniana var. majuscula Engler & Irmscher; S. brunoniana var. majuscula subvar. exunguiculata Engler & Irmscher; S. brunoniana var. majuscula subvar. unguiculata Engler & Irmscher.