Triplostegia glandulifera Wall. ex Dc.

Fragile, 5-15 cm long, erect, mostly with a distinct rosette at the base of the stem or higher on the stem, above a creeping branched rootstock. Cauline leaves reduced, 1-2 pairs. Leaves spathul-ate to oblong-obovate, coarsely dentate or sub-pinnatifid in the upper portion, basal part entire, tapering into a distinct or indistinct petiole, 1-3 cm long, upper surface puberulous towards the margins, lower surface with scattered hairs on midrib and nerves. Inflorescence few-flowered and congested, stalks expanding in fruit. Bracts linear-spathulate, puberulous, margins ciliate, 2½-3 mm. Flowers white. Pedicels very short, in fruit to 1 mm. Lobes of outer epicalyx narrow-triangular, short-pubescent and capitate-glandular, 1½-1¾ mm, the acute tip mucronate, hardening and hooked in fruit, slightly exceeding the calyx. Inner epicalyx pubescent on the ribs, 1½ mm long; limb consisting of 8 minute triangular teeth. Calyx cup-shaped, ± ¼ mm long, 5-lobed halfway down, lobes broad-triangular acute. Corolla 3-4 mm long, tube funnel-shaped, twice as long as the broadly elliptic, rounded, obliquely erect lobes; one vein in each lobe. Filaments erect, inserted just below the in-cisions, ½ mm long; anthers exserting from the tube. Style 2 mm long, straight; stigma capitate.

Fl. March-August.