Herbs perennial, cespitose, 13-17 cm tall. Stem tawny crisped glandular villous, hairs denser near nodes. Basal leaves with petiole ca. 1 cm, abaxially glandular pilose, margin brown crisped glandular villous; leaf blade suboblong, ca. 6 × 1.5 mm, abaxially and marginally brown glandular or eglandular pilose, apex 1- or 2- crisped aristate glandular villous (hairs sometimes deciduous). Proximal cauline leaves similar to basal ones; petiole ca. 6 mm, abaxially and marginally glandular pilose; leaf blade oblong to narrowly ovate, ca. 6.6 × 2 mm, abaxially and marginally glandular pubescent; distal leaves subsessile, leaf blade narrowly ovate to oblong, ca. 1 cm × 3.5 mm, brown crisped glandular villous near base, both surfaces glandular pubescent, apex with 1-4 aristate, glandular hairs. Flower solitary or cyme 2-flowered; pedicels 1.2-3 cm, brown glandular hairy and crisped glandular villous. Sepals erect to spreading, ovate to subelliptic, ca. 4 × 2.5-2.8 mm, abaxially glandular hairy, veins 5, not confluent at apex, margin membranous, apex erose. Petals orange, elliptic to ovate, 5.5-5.6 × ca. 3.5 mm, 2-callose near base, 5-7-veined, base with a claw 0.3-0.5 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 3-3.5 mm. Ovary broadly ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm; styles divergent, ca. 2.5 mm; stigma rather large. Fl. Jul-Aug.

* Alpine scrub meadows; ca. 4600 m. W Sichuan (Daocheng Xian).