BLEPHAROPHYLLUM Fröderström, 1942

Etymology : Gr. 'blepharis' = eye lash; and Gr. 'phyllon' = leaf; referring to the ciliate leaf margins.

Distribution : China (W Sichuan); sunny rocks in valleys, stone walls, 3200 – 3800 m.

Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :

Annual or biennial somewhat tufted herbs with moderately robust minutely papillose stems, 6 – 14 cm tall.

Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, with short acute papillae in the upper part, 5 – 5.5 mm.

Flowering branches erect or ascending, branched in the upper half.

Inflorescences lax corymbs or racemose, ± 4 cm.

Flowers 5-merous, shortly pedicellate, sepals basally free, shortly spurred, oblong, subobtuse, acutely papillose, ± 4 mm, petals almost free at the base, oblong, subacute, densely papillose at the tip, pale yellow, ± 4 mm, nectar scales linear-spatulate, obtuse, pale, styles short, fruit divergent from the middle, seeds small, ovoid, reticulate-papillose.