Draba funckeana Linden & Planchon, Trois. Voy. Linden, Bot., Pl. Colomb. 1: 13. 1874/1875.         TYPE: Venezuela, Estado Mérida, Sierra Nevada, Jun 1847, Funck & Schlim 1619 (holotype, P!; isotypes, B!, G!).

Draba pamplonensis Planchon & Linden var. moritzii O. E. Schulz in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV. 105(Heft 89): 171. 1927. TYPE: Venezuela, [Estado Mérida], Páramo de Mucuchies, Karl Moritz 1048 (holotype, B).

     Herbs perennial; caudex simple, to 3 cm thick, covered with foliar remains of previous years, terminated in a rosette. Stems (5–)7–18(–35) cm, 1 to several from caudex, often hollow, scabrous with minute, stellate or submalpighiaceous forked trichomes often less than 0.3 mm, these rarely mixed with simple trichomes. Basal leaves numerous, rosulate, somewhat fleshy; petiole obsolete or short; leaf blade oblong or narrowly to broadly lanceolate, (1–)1.5–5(–9) cm × (2–)4–10(–15) mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin serrate, ciliate with subsetose simple trichomes to 0.7 mm, apex acute; cauline leaves narrowly to broadly oblong or ovate, 0.6–2.5(–4) cm × 2–7(–10) mm, gradually reduced in size upward, ciliate-subsetose, glabrous, sessile, margin serrate, apex acute. Racemes corymbose, elongated in fruit; bracts present throughout or only along lowermost portion, similar to cauline leaves but smaller; fruiting pedicel divaricate, straight or rarely slightly recurved, (2–)4–12(–15) mm. Sepals erect, ovate to broadly oblong, caducous, (1.5–)2–2.5 × 1.2–1.7(–2) mm, base usually not saccate; petals yellow, narrowly obovate to spatulate, 3.5–5(–6.5) × 1.5–2.5(–3) mm, narrowed to clawlike base, apex rounded to subemarginate; filaments (1.5–)2–2.5(–3) mm; anthers ovate, (0.4–)0.5–0.7 mm; nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of all filaments; ovules 6–12 per ovary. Fruit oblong to ellipsoid or ovate, compressed, 5–8 × (2–)3–5 mm; valves glabrous, acute at apex; style subconical, 0.6–1 mm; stigma entire. Seeds brown, ovate, compressed, 1.8–2 × 1.3–1.5 mm.

Flowering: various times of the year.

Habitat: páramo, moist gravel, moraine, cliff bases.

Elevation: 3550–4750 m.

Distribution: Venezuela (Mérida).