Description
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Herbs 5-6.3 cm tall. Stems simple, brown crisped villous. Basal leaf 1 or absent; petiole ca. 1.7 cm, brown pilose; leaf blade broadly orbicular-reniform, 3-8 × 5-12 mm, both surfaces glabrous, base cordate, margin ca. 13-crenate, teeth retuse at apex, with 1 brown, short hair. Cauline leaves 1 or 2, alternate; petiole 5-6 mm, brown crisped villous; leaf blade subreniform, 4.5-7 × 7-8 mm, both surfaces brown pilose, base ± cordate, margin 5-9-crenate. Cyme 1.1-2.1 cm, 3-11-flowered; bracteal leaves with petiole 1.2-3.5 mm, glabrous or brown pilose, leaf blade broadly ovate to broadly orbicular, 2.7-3 × 3.2-4 mm, both surfaces glabrous or brown pilose, sometimes papillose, base broadly cuneate to truncate, margin (2 or)3-6-crenate, teeth retuse and 1-verrucose at apex. Flowers 4.2-4.5 mm in diam.; pedicel brown pilose. Sepals spreading, brown spotted, broadly rhombic-orbicular, 1.3-1.8 × 1.4-2.4 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Stamens 8; filaments ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior; styles erect or divergent, 0.5-0.6 mm. Disc 8-lobed. Capsule ca. 2 mm, apex retuse; carpels subequal; rostrums ca. 0.8 mm. Seeds dark brown, shiny, ellipsoid, smooth, glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Habitat
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* Rock clefts in forest understories; ca. 3600 m.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA