Saxifraga linearifolia Engl. & Irmsch.

Herbs perennial, densely cespitose, small, 3-5 cm tall. Stem brown glandular villous. Basal leaves aggregated into a rosette; petiole 4.5-5.5 mm, margin brown glandular villous; leaf blade oblong to elliptic, 3.5-4 × 1-1.5 mm, adaxially and marginally glandular hairy, base cuneate, apex subobtuse. Cauline leaves with petiole reduced to absent distally on stem, base glandular villous; leaf blade oblong to oblanceolate, 3.6-5 × 1.2-1.3 mm, both surfaces and margin glandular hairy. Flower solitary; pedicel 2-2.5 mm, long and shortly glandular hairy. Sepals spreading, subelliptic or oblong, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.7 mm, glabrous or glandular hairy abaxially, veins 3 or 4, not confluent at apex, margin membranous, apex obtuse and erose, glabrous or sparsely glandular ciliate on 1 lateral side. Petals yellow, obovate to elliptic, 2.5-5 × 1.6-3.5 mm, not callose, 3-5-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.2-0.3 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 1.2 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, ca. 1.6 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Alpine meadows, rock crevices; 3900-4200. W Sichuan (Kangding Xian), NW Yunnan (Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian).