Halerpestes lancifolia (Bert.) Hand.-Mazz.

Stolons 3--10 cm. Basal leaves ca. 7, glabrous; petiole 1.8--2.2 cm, narrowly vaginate at base; leaf blade linear, lanceolate, or narrowly ovate, 3--12 × 1--2 mm, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margin 2- or 3-dentate near apex or entire. Scapes 1.2--2.5 cm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent near apex, leafless with a linear bract below flower. Flowers 1, 8--9 mm in diam. Receptacle puberulent. Sepals 5, ovate, 4--5 mm, glabrous. Petals 5, oblong, 4--5 × 1.2--1.8 mm. Anthers broadly elliptic, 0.5--0.7 mm. Aggregate fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diam.; achenes obliquely ovate, 1.8--2 × 1.1--1.5 mm, glabrous. Persistent style 0.6--0.8 mm, recurved at apex. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug.

W Xizang [Kashmir, Nepal].

By lakes or rivers, damp alpine meadows; 3700--5100 m.

Ranunculus lancifolius Bertoloni, Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna, ser. 2, 3: 423. 1862; R. palifolius Dunn; R. tricuspis Maximowicz var. lancifolius (Bertoloni) H. Hara.