Rhodiola junggarica C. Y. Yang & N. R. Cui

Main root robust. Caudex thick, 4-5(-10) cm. Caudex leaves brown, scalelike, ovate-triangular, membranous. Flowering stems 1-4, 5-11 cm. Stem leaves alternate, yellowish green, ovate-triangular, 5-10 × 4-5 mm, base truncate to subcordate, margin coarsely obtuse-serrate, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences capitately corymbiform, dense, ca. 1 × 1-2 cm, basally leafy. Flowers unisexual, male ones unequally 4-merous; pedicel 2-3 mm. Sepals reddish, triangular-linear, shorter than petals. Petals red, sometimes yellow at base, elliptic, ca. 2 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 8, ca. 4 mm; filaments and anthers yellow. Nectar scales oblong, apex retuse. Fl. Jun.

W Xinjiang (Wenquan Xian).

* Subalpine and alpine meadows; 2500-2700 m.