Cicendia microphylla Edgeworth, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 83. 1846; Sebaea khasiana C. B. Clarke.

Plants 5-10 cm tall, glabrous. Stems erect, simple, terete. Leaves sessile, 1-2.5 × 0.5-0.8 mm, base obtuse, margin membranous, apex acuminate. Flowers 1-3. Pedicel 0.7-1.7 cm, slender. Calyx 4-5 mm; lobes spreading, lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 mm, margin broadly membranous, apex acuminate, midvein keeled. Corolla yellow, tubular, 8-10 mm; lobes elliptic, 4-5 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Filaments linear, 1.8-2 mm; anthers ellipsoid, 0.8-1 mm. Style linear, 3.5-4 mm; stigma lobes orbicular. Capsules ellipsoid to subglobose, 2.5-3 mm. Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid to globose, 0.2-0.3 mm. Fl. and fr. Oct.

Forests; ca. 2300 m. Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Nepal].