Shrubs, semi-evergreen, low. Stems stout, glabrous, very sulcate; branches shiny, dark red, sometimes scarcely verruculose; internodes 1-2 cm; spines 3-fid, orange, 1-1.3 cm, sulcate. Petiole 1-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayish white, adaxially shiny, dark green, oblong-obovate, 1-3 × 0.5-1.4 cm, abaxially papillate, adaxially lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, base cuneate, margin 3-5-spinose-serrate, apex rounded, mucronulate. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 1.5-2 cm; bractlets red, oblong-triangular, 2-2.5 × 1.5-2 mm. Sepals in 3 whorls; outer sepals oblong-ovate, 4-6 × 3-4 mm, apex subacute; median and inner sepals obovate, equal in size, 9-10 × 6-7 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 6.5 × 4-5 mm, base with concolorous glands, apex emarginate with rounded lobes. Stamens 4-4.5 mm; anther connective not prolonged, truncate. Ovules 6-8. Berry dark red, oblong, 13-16 × 6-8 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

Habitat unknown; ca. 3700 m. Xizang [India (Sikkim), Nepal].