Herbs perennial, cespitose, 3.5-4.5 cm tall. Shoots few branched, with leaf rosettes. Flowering stem pale crisped piliferous. Rosette leaves subspatulate, ca. 3.7 × 1.2 mm, subcarnose, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex mucronate. Cauline leaves spatulate-oblong, ca. 3.3 × 1 mm, carnose, both surfaces glabrous, margin cartilaginous setose-ciliate, apex mucronate. Flower solitary; pedicel slender, ca. 1.7 cm, pale pilose. Sepals spreading to reflexed, orbicular, ca. 2 mm, carnose, abaxially pale pilose, adaxially and marginally glabrous, veins 5, partly confluent at apex. Petals yellow, proximally orange spotted, ovate, ca. 4.6 × 2.3 mm, obscurely 2-callose, 5-veined, base with a claw ca. 0.3 mm, apex acute. Stamens ca. 3.4 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, ca. 2 mm; styles ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Alpine rock crevices; 4600-4700 m. NW Yunnan (Dêqên Xian, Lijiang Naxi Zu Zizhixian).