Roots thick, woody. Stems tufted, basal petioles persistent, ca. 5 cm tall, densely gray stellate pannose. Petiole 0.8-2.5 cm; basal and stem leaf blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-4 × 1.4-2.5 cm, appressed gray stellate pubescent, gray dusty hairy, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin crenate, apex rounded. Floral leaves subsessile to short petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to spatulate, 1-1.2 cm × 5 mm. Calyx tubular-campanulate, ca. 6.5 × 4 mm, white dusty hairy, veins sparsely villous outside; teeth semicircular, ca. 1 mm, spinescent, margin pilose. Corolla purple, ca. 1.3 cm; tube ca. 8 mm, appressed gray pubescent near throat outside, pilose annulate inside; upper lip ca. 6 mm, densely appressed pubescent outside, bearded inside, margin denticulate; lower lip ca. 6 × 6 mm, appressed pubescent outside; middle lobe obcordate, ca. 2.5 × 3.5 mm; lateral lobes triangular-ovate. Stamens included; filaments without basal appendages. Nutlets glabrous. Fl. Jul.

* Terraces; ca. 5000 m. Xizang.