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Flora of China 8: 278–280. 200 1. 8. BERGENIA Moench, Methodus, 664. 1794, nom. cons. 岩白菜属 yan bai cai shu Pan Jintang (潘锦堂); Douglas E. Soltis Herbs perennial, forming large clumps. Rhizomes creeping, large, thick, scaly. Leaves all basal, ± persistent, simple, waxy, often leathery; petiole short, broad, sheathing at base; leaf blade thick, margin entire, crenate, or dentate. Infloresences cymose, bracteate. Flowers showy, large. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white, pink, red, or purple. Stamens 10. Carpels 2, basally connate; ovary 1/4 subsuperior, proximally 2-loculed with axile placentation and distally 1- loculed with marginal placentation; styles 2; ovules many. Fruit a capsule. Seeds numerous, dark brown, small. Ten species: Asia; seven species (three endemic) in China. At least two species (Bergenia crassifolia and B. pacumbis) are cultivated as ornamentals and for medicinal use, and they have been considerably hybridized. Bergenia is most closely related to Mukdenia and Oresitrophe; other close relatives are Astilboides, Darmera Voss, and Rodgersia . 1a. Sheathing petiole base and leaf blade glabrous at margin. 2a. Pedicels, hypanthia, and sepals glabrous 1. B. scopulosa 2b. Pedicels, hypanthia, and sepals ± glandular hairy. 3a. Inflorescence branches, pedicels, hypanthia, and sepals sparsely subsessile glandular 2. B. crassifolia 3b. Inflorescence branches, pedicels, hypanthia, and sepals densely long glandular hairy .. 3. B. purpurascens 1b. Sheathing petiole base and often also leaf blade ciliate at margin. 4a. Leaf blade narrowly obovate, margin entire, not ciliate; petals narrowly obovate 4. B. emeiensis 4b. Leaf blade orbicular, broadly ovate, or obovate, margin subentire, obscurely crenate, dentate, serrate, or doubly serrate, ciliate; petals subs