Psychrophila phylloptera (A.W.Hill) H.Eichler

Tufted herb, 2–8 cm high. Rhizomes fleshy. Leaves in rosettes; petiole 1–6 cm long, lower-half membranous; lamina cordate-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 10–25 mm long, 5–10 mm wide, ± entire, ± emarginate; basal appendages elliptic, 5–12 mm long, erect, attached for part of their length along either side of the midrib, often unequally 2-lobed near base. Fruiting stems to c. 15 mm long, thickish. Flowers subsessile at anthesis. Tepals 5–7, spreading, linear-lanceolate, 8–10 mm long, short-acuminate, creamy yellow to pale straw-coloured. Stamens c. 10; filaments c. 5 mm long, flattened; anthers ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long. Carpels 5–8 (–10); styles persistent. Fruiting follicles in a head 10–15 mm diam., sessile, beaked; seeds 1–6, ovoid, smooth, brown.

Grows on mountains in wet screes in the shelter of boulders or tall plants, or sometimes between cushion plants.