Saxifraga nanelloides C. Y. Wu

Herbs perennial, sparsely cespitose, 2.5-3 cm tall. Shoots branched. Sterile branches with terminal leaf rosettes. Flowering stem brown glandular hairy distally. Flowering stem leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 4.5-6.3 × 0.7-1 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous, apex obtuse, glabrous; proximal leaves remote, smaller, margin setose-ciliate; distal leaves arranged in a dense rosette, larger, margin glandular ciliate. Flower solitary; pedicel 1-1.8 cm, brown glandular hairy. Sepals reflexed, subelliptic, ca. 3.4 × 1.7 mm, carnose, glabrous, veins 3-5, confluent into a verruca at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, ovate to elliptic, ca. 5.6 × 3-3.1 mm, 3-5-callose, 3-5-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 0.4 mm, apex subacute. Stamens ca. 3.5 mm. Ovary superior, ca. 2.7 mm; styles ca. 1.8 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

NW Yunnan (Dêqên Xian).

* Alpine rock crevices; ca. 4000 m.