Saxifraga clivorum Harry Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga

Characteristics

Plants many branched, 1.5-2 cm tall, with crowded shoots forming cushions. Flowering stem ca. 4 mm, embedded among rosette leaves and not visible, glandular hairy. Shoot leaves subimbricate, aggregated into a rosette, narrowly obovate, abaxially convex, adaxially concave, 6.5-6.7 × 2.3-2.6 mm, both surfaces glabrous, chalk glands 3, margin glandular ciliate proximally, apex truncate. Cauline leaves narrowly subobovate, abaxially subconvex, adaxially subconcave, ca. 5 × 1.8 mm, abaxially glandular hairy proximally, adaxially glabrous, chalk glands 3, margin cartilaginous glandular ciliate, apex subacute, glabrous. Cyme usually 3-flowered; bracts tightly appressed to hypanthium, linear, chalk gland 1; pedicels nearly absent. Sepals erect, broadly ovate, 1.8-2 × ca. 1.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, veins 3, not confluent at apex, margin cartilaginous glandular ciliate, apex obtuse, glabrous. Petals white, broadly obovate to orbicular, 4-4.2 × 3-3.6 mm, 5-7-veined, base with a claw 0.5-0.9 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary semi-inferior; styles ca. 2 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug.
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Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 0.02 - 0.02
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Distribution

Saxifraga clivorum world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, and India

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:793442-1
WFO ID wfo-0001136419
COL ID 6XQQR
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Synonyms

Saxifraga clivorum