Solms-laubachia pumila - Dwarf Christolea

Dwarf Christolea is a stemless plant, hairy or woolly. Basal leaves are fleshy; leaf-stalk 2-10 mm, persistent, densely hairy with simple trichomes, fringed with hairs, expanded and papery at base; leaf blade broadly ovate, nearly round, obovate, or spoon-shaped, 2-14 × 1-11 mm, densely woolly or hairy, base blunt, margin 3-7-toothed or wavy, tip blunt. Stem leaves are absent. Flowers arise singly from basal rosette. Petals are creamy white or purplish green, broadly obovate, 6-8 x 3-4.5 mm, tip somewhat notched; claw 3-4 mm. Filaments are white, dilated at base, toothless, median pairs 3-4 mm, lateral pair 2-2.5 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 0.9-1.2 mm. Sepals are free, oblong, 3-4 x 1.5-2 mm, falling off, hairy, base not saclike, margin membranous. Fruiting flower-stalks rising up-divaricate, straight, 3-10 mm, hairy. Immature fruit is oblong-linear or linear-lanceshaped, 1-2 cm x 2-3 mm, flattened, straight. Dwarf Christolea is found on limestone, mica schist, at altitudes of 4200-5700 m, from W. China to W. Himalaya. Flowering: June-July.