Minuartia ebracteolata Majumdar & Giri in Candollea 38: 343. 1983.

Herbs, perennial, erect or loosely tufted, with vegetative shoots and 10 - 14 cm long flowring shoots; internodes very short in sterile shoots and long in flowering shoots. Leaves linear, slightly connate at base, entire, acute at apex, 10 - 15 x 0.75 - 1 mm, glandular-pubescent, often flexuous, 1 - 3-nerved; lateral nerves usually subobscure. Cymes few-flowered, compact; pedicels ebracteolate, 1 - 4 mm long, densely glandular- pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or apiculate at apex, 4 - 3 - x 1.5 - 2 mm, broadly scarious-margined, dorsally glandular-pubescent, strongly 3-nerved, erect at anthesis. Petals 5, oblong, 8 - 9 x 3.5 - 4 mm, membranous, finely nerved inside. Stamens 5, attached to base of petals; filaments 6 - 7 mm long, glabrous; anthers oblong, ca 0.5 mm long, dorsifixed. Ovary urceolate, glabrous; styles 3, ca 2 mm long, glabrous; stigma flattened. Capsules 3-valved, 6 - 7 mm long; valves reflexed at apex on dehiscence; seeds ca 0.5 mm long, dark red, honey-combed, distinctly tuberculate.

Fl. June - July.

Distrib. India: Alpine Himalayas, above 3000 m. Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Pakistan.

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