Saxifraga pulvinaria Harry Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga

Characteristics

Plants many branched, 4.5-6 cm tall, with crowded shoots forming cushions. Flowering stem embedded among rosette leaves and not visible, 1.4-1.9 mm, glabrous. Shoot leaves imbricate, aggregated into a rosette, narrowly elliptic, ca. 3.3 × 1.4 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, chalk gland 1, margin cartilaginous ciliate, apex acute, glabrous. Cauline leaves 3 or 4, linear-oblong, 3.5-4 × 0.8-1 mm, both surfaces glabrous, chalk gland 1, margin cartilaginous ciliate, apex acute, glabrous. Flower solitary; bract suboblong, ca. 2.8 × 0.9 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin glandular ciliate, apex acute; pedicel ca. 0.3 mm. Sepals erect, subtriangular-ovate to broadly ovate, 1.6-2 × ca. 1.4 mm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, veins 3, confluent at apex, margin glandular ciliate, apex obtuse or acute, glabrous. Petals white, obovate or oblanceolate to oblong, 3.5-5.3 × (1.5-)2-3 mm, 5-or 6-veined, base gradually narrowed into a claw, apex retuse or obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.2 mm. Ovary subinferior, ca. 2 mm, with an annular nectary disc; styles ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.06
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

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

Saxifraga pulvinaria world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Tajikistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:794357-1
WFO ID wfo-0001136002
COL ID 6Y39X
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Synonyms

Saxifraga pulvinaria