Parnassia nubicola Wall.

has not been reported from W. Pakistan This is an Eastern Himalayan species characterized by the sepals having 5-7 nerves, and deeply brown or red dotted fimbriate margined petals.

Stems 3 or 4(or 5), (5-)13-40 cm, with 1 leaf near base or in proximal 1/4. Basal leaves 3-8; petiole 3-7(-13) cm; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially deep green or brown-green, elliptic or ovate-oblong, rarely oblong, (2-)2.5-7.5 × (1.5-)2-3.8 cm, thick textured or thin and papery, base subcuneate, sometimes truncate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Cauline leaf similar to basal ones but smaller, often with a few rusty brown appendages at base. Flower 2.8-3.4 cm in diam.; hypanthium campanulate. Sepals densely brown punctate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, ca. 8 × 3 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Petals white, purple-brown punctate, broadly ovate, 1.2-1.6 cm × 8-10 mm, base contracted into a claw 2-3 mm, margin entire or erose proximally, apex rounded. Anthers ellipsoid, 0.8-1.1 mm; filaments ca. 4.5 mm; staminodes flat, 4-5 mm, stalk ca. 2 × 1 mm, lamina 3-lobed for 1/5-1/4(-1/2) its length, lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. Ovary semi-inferior, ovoid; style ca. 2 mm; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 3- or 4-lobed. Seeds brown, glossy, oblong. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Sep. 2n = 18.

Afghanistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), S. Tibet.

SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan].

2900-4200 m

Abies or Betula forests, streamsides near forests, moist places in scrub, meadows in glacial valleys; 2700-3900 m.

Parnassia nubicola là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Dây gối. Loài này được Wall. ex Royle mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1835.

云梅花草（学名：Parnassia nubicola），为卫矛科梅花草属下的一个植物种。