Shrubs deciduous, 1–2 m tall. Branchlets sometimes nodding, reddish brown when old, terete, initially grayish yellow strigose-villous, glabrous when old. Petiole 2–3 mm, strigose-villous; stipules subulate, 2–5 mm, pilose; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, (0.7–)1.5–2 cm × 4–11 mm, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, slightly raised abaxially, both surfaces appressed strigose-villous, more densely so abaxially, glabrescent, base cuneate or somewhat rounded, apex acute to acuminate. Corymbs (2 or)3 (or 4)-flowered; rachis and pedicels villous; bracts subulate, sparsely villous. Pedicel 1–3 mm. Flowers 4–5 mm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially villous. Sepals triangular, apex acute. Petals erect, pink or brownish red with white margin, suborbicular, 2–3 × 1.5–2 mm, base cuneate, apex incurved. Stamens (10–)12(–14), 1.5–2 mm; filaments equal in length; anthers yellowish white or pink. Styles 2 or 3, free, 1–2 mm. Fruit brownish black or black, ovoid or subglobose, 6–7 × 4–5 mm, pyrenes 2 or 3. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Aug–Sep.

Slopes, thickets; 2300--2900 m. W Sichuan, SE Xizang.