Herbs perennial. Rhizomes creeping, comparatively thin, often with remains of old foliage. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 1--10(--18) cm, glabrous or puberulous, vaginate at base; leaf blade suborbicular, 1--5(--8) cm wide, abaxially glabrous or nearly so, adaxially pubescent or scabrous-puberulous, base deeply cordate, palmately divided 1/3--1/2 its width into 7--9 lobes; lobes deeply dentate. Scapes 3--12(--30) cm, puberulous; umbel solitary, 2--12-flowered; bracts linear lanceolate to elliptic, 3--7(--14) mm. Pedicel 5--10 mm, puberulous. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx campanulate, 3--5(--8) mm, puberulous or glabrous, parted to middle; lobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, with 1 main vein. Corolla purplish pink; tube slightly longer to 2 X as long as calyx; limb 1--1.5 cm wide; lobes obovate, 2-lobed; lobules usually 2-toothed. Pin flowers: stamens at middle of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule globose, ca. as long as calyx. Fl. Jun.

In moist rock crevices, forests, streamsides, moist meadows, on rocks; 2200--5000 m. Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, N Myanmar, Sikkim]