Saxifraga nanella - Nano Saxifrage

Nano Saxifrage is a perennial, clustered herb, 1.2-4 cm tall. Flowers are borne singly or in 2-5-flowered cymes. Petals are yellow, proximally orange spotted, elliptic to ovate, 4.1-5 x 2-2.2 mm, 2-callose or not callose near base, 5-veined, base with a claw 0.5-0.6 mm, tip blunt or pointed. Sepals are spreading to reflexed, ovate to broadly so, 1.5-2.5 x 1.2-2 mm, fleshy, below glandular hairy or hairless, above and marginally hairless, veins 3-5, partly or fully confluent at tip, tip blunt. Stamens are about 3.5 mm. Ovary is almost superior, broadly ovoid, about 3 mm; styles about 1 mm. Shoots are branched, sometimes forming cushions. Flowering stems are brown glandular hairy. Shoots with branch-end leaves aggregated into a rosette. Leaves are almost spoon-shaped to somewhat oblong or ovate, 3-8 x 1.5-3 mm, fleshy, both surfaces hairless, margin glandular fringed with hairs, hairless, or proximally sparsely bristly-fringed with hairs, tip blunt, hairless. Nano Saxifrage is found in alpine meadows, alpine scrub meadows, rock crevices, in W. & Central Himalaya to S. Xinjiang and China (NW. Yunnan), at altitudes of 3000-5800 m. Flowering: July-August.