Saxifraga culcitosa Mattf.

Herbs perennial, densely cespitose, ca. 1 cm tall. Shoots much branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem extremely short, scarcely overtopping foliage, with 1 bract concealed among basal leaves, crisped glandular villous. Basal leaves with petiole 2-2.8 mm, margin crisped glandular villous; leaf blade suboblanceolate, abaxially convex, adaxially rather concave, 2.2-3 × 0.5-0.8 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces glabrous, 3-veined, apex acute or aristate. Flower solitary; bract linear, ca. 3.3 × 0.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, 1-veined, margin brown glandular villous at base, apex mucronate; pedicel ca. 1.5 mm, brown glandular villous. Sepals erect, narrowly ovate to suboblong, ca. 2.3 × 0.6 mm, glabrous, veins 2 or 3, not confluent at apex, apex obtuse. Petals orange, narrowly ovate, 1.5-2.3 × 0.6 mm, 2-callose near base, 1- or 3-veined, base contracted into a claw ca. 0.6 mm, apex acute. Stamens ca. 2 mm. Ovary semi-inferior, ca. 1.4 mm; styles ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

W Sichuan.

* Alpine meadows, rock crevices; 4000-5100 m.

Saxifraga kangdingensis T. C. Ku.

Saxifraga culcitosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Saxifragaceae. Loài này được Mattf. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1931.

枕状虎耳草（学名：Saxifraga culcitosa）为虎耳草科虎耳草属下的一个种。