Botanical name: Microula tibetica    Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Microula benthamii

Tibetan Microula is a stemless herb about 1 cm tall. Branches are very short and crowded in middle of prominent leaf rosette. Leaves are prostrate, spoon-shaped, 3-13 x 0.8-2.8 cm, below short white bristly, above sparser and short bristly, base narrowed into leaf-stalk, margin almost entire or wavy, tip rounded to blunt. Flowers are crowded into a dense head-like cluster in the middle of the rosette. Flowers are blue or white, hairless; tube about 1.2 mm; limb 1.2-4 mm wide; petals round-ovate. Sepal-cup about 1.5 mm, to 3 mm in fruit; sepals narrowly triangular, sparsely velvet-hairy outside, fringed with hairs along margin. Bracts are linear to oblong-linear, 0.2-2 cm. Flower-stalks are less than 0.8 mm, elongated to 5 mm and drooping in fruit, stout, bristly. Tibetan Microula is found on lakeshore marshes, disturbed slopes and roadsides, rocky areas, meadows, at altitudes of 3500-5300 m, from the Himalayas to Tibet. Flowering: July-September.

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