Saxifraga gyalana C. Marquand & Airy Shaw

Herbs perennial, cespitose, 5-9 cm tall. Shoots branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem dark brown glandular hairy. Rosette leaves oblanceolate- to spatulate-linear, 5-8.6 × 1-1.7 mm, subcarnose, setose abaxially distally, adaxially, and marginally, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves oblong to spatulate-oblong, 3.6-4.5 × 1-1.5 mm, subcarnose, abaxially glabrous or sparsely glandular hairy, adaxially distally and marginally brown glandular hairy, apex obtuse or acute. Cyme 1-2.7 cm, 2-6-flowered, rarely flower solitary; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm, dark brown glandular hairy. Sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate to broadly so, abaxially convex, adaxially concave, 2-2.1 × 1.1-1.5 mm, abaxially dark brown glandular hairy, adaxially glabrous, veins 3, not confluent at apex, margin glandular ciliate, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, proximally orange or spotted orange, lanceolate to oblong, 5-6.8 × 1.8-2.4 mm, 6-8-callose, 3-veined, base subcordate, with a claw 0.4-1 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 3.8-4 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, 1.6-2.5 mm; styles 1-1.1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.

E Xizang.

* Forests, rock crevices; 2300-4100 m.