Saxifraga kingiana Engl. & Irmsch.

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 70-75 cm tall. Stem brown crisped villous. Basal leaves caducous. Cauline leaves ca. 10, lanceolate-ovate or ovate to cordate, 1.6-5.1 × 1.1-2.4 cm, both surfaces and margin villous, base cordate, amplexicaul, apex shortly acuminate or acute; proximal leaves smaller, distal ones gradually larger, most proximal one caducous. Cyme ca. 14.5 cm, ca. 14-flowered; branches 5.5-6 cm, 1-or 2-flowered; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm, brown glandular villous. Sepals spreading, ovate, 4.5-5 × 3-4 mm, brown glandular pilose abaxially, adaxially distally, and marginally, veins 5 or 6, confluent into a verruca at apex. Petals yellow, adaxially lilac spotted, orbicular or broadly elliptic to broadly obovate, 6.8-7 × 5.3-6.4 mm, not callose, ca. 7-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.5-0.7 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 5.9 mm. Ovary subsuperior, globose, ca. 4.2 mm in diam.; styles ca. 1.2 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.7 - 0.75
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Cultivation

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

Saxifraga kingiana world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:793907-1
WFO ID wfo-0001136262
COL ID 79R7J
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Synonyms

Saxifraga kingiana