Synonym: Hirculus brunonianus; Saxifraga brunoniana.
Region: China, Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim.
Habitat: mossy rocks in woods, hillsides, alpine gullies; altitude 2800 4000 m.
BotanyStem: purple-brown; 6 to 16 cm; proximally glabrous, distally sparsely dark purple shortly glandular hairy; stolons arising from axils of basal leaves.
Leaves: purple-brown; 4 to 24 cm; sparsely dark purple glandular hairy; basal leaves aggregated into a rosette, gray-green, shiny, oblong-ensiform, 1 to 2 cm 2 mm; carnose; rigid, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex cartilaginous aristate; cauline leaves remote, oblong-ensiform or subensate to suboblong, ± 1 cm long, 2 mm wide, carnose, rigid, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex cartilaginous aristate.
Inflorescence: cyme, lax, 1 to 7 cm, 3 to 9-flowers; branches to 6.5 cm, sparsely dark brown shortly glandular hairy, 2- or 3-flowered; pedicels slender, ± 1 to 2 cm, sparsely dark brown shortly glandular hairy.
Flowers: flowering June to October.
Calyx: sepals spreading, ovate to broadly so, ± 2 by 2 mm, usually glabrous, rarely with 2 or 3 dark purple, glandular hairs abaxially proximally, veins 3-5, not, partly, or fully confluent at apex, apex subobtuse or acute.
Corolla: petals yellow, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, ± 6 by 3 mm, obscurely 2-callose, 3-5-veined, base subclawed or with a claw ca. 1 mm, apex subobtuse or acute.
Androecium: stamens ± 4 mm.
Gynoecium: ovary subsuperior, ellipsoid, ± 2 mm; styles ± 1 mm.
Fruit: capsule; subglobose. 2n = 16.