Stem 15-19 cm tall, white crisped villous. Petiole 1.7-2.5 cm, sparsely crisped villous; leaf blade ovate to lanceolate-oblong, 1.5-3 × ca. 1.4 cm, both surfaces ± pilose, pinniveined, margin serrate, sparsely ciliate, apex acute. Inflorescence corymbose, 10-11 cm, 21-29-flowered; branches 2-8 cm, 2-4flowered; bracts linear, ca. 1.5 cm × 2.5 mm, both surfaces glabrous, margin crisped villous; pedicels densely white crisped villous. Sepals spreading, triangular-ovate, 3.2-3.5 × 1.8-2 mm, glabrous, veins 4-8, confluent into a verruca at apex, apex acute. Petals white or pink with lilac claw, narrowly ovate to suboblong, 2.5-3 × 1-1.3 mm, 1-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.5-2 mm, apex subobtuse or acute. Stamens ca. 3.5 mm; filaments ?linear. Ovary up to 1/3 inferior, dark purple, ovoid; styles ca. 1 mm. Capsule ca. 7.5 mm; carpels divergent distally. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Alpine meadows; ca. 3000 m. E Qinghai (Zêkog Xian).