Saxifraga caveana W. W. Smith

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 2.5-4.5 cm tall. Stem dark brown glandular hairy, leafless but with bracts. Basal leaves with petiole 6-10 mm, margin crisped glandular villous; leaf blade oblong to ovate, 4-10 × 1.1-5 mm, glabrous, base cuneate, apex subacute. Flower solitary; pedicel 1-2(-7) cm, dark brown glandular hairy. Sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate or lanceolate, gibbous, 4.6-6 × 2.7-4 mm, abaxially and marginally dark brown glandular hairy or glabrous, veins (3 or)5, partly confluent at apex, apex subobtuse. Petals yellow, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 8-10 × 5-6 mm, not callose, 3- or 6-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.8-1 mm, apex retuse. Stamens 5-6 mm. Ovary subsuperior, subglobose, ca. 4.5 mm; styles ca. 1.3 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

E. Himalaya (Nepal to Bhutan), S. Tibet, W. China.

S Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].

4200-5000 m

Alpine meadows, rocky slopes; 4500-4800 m.