Herbs perennial, stemless, ca. 30 cm tall, glabrous. Leaves basal, 1-pinnately divided, 8-25 cm; leaf rachis ca. 20 cm; lateral leaflets 4-11 pairs, elliptic-lanceolate, 4-7 X 1-3 cm, glabrous, base obtuse to subrounded, margin serrate, apex acuminate; terminal leaflets 1.5-3.5 X 1-2.5 cm, subsessile. Inflorescences racemose, 2-6-flowered, terminal; peduncle ca. 30 cm; bracts ca. 1 cm; bractlets ca. 5 mm. Pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm. Calyx campanulate, 1.3-2 cm; teeth 5-7 X 5-7 mm, apex caudate-acuminate. Corolla red, campanulate, ca. 6.5 X 3.5 cm; tube ca. 5 cm; lobes semirounded, spreading. Filaments ca. 2.5 cm; anthers ovoid, versatile. Style ca. 3 cm; stigma compressed, flabellate. Capsule gray-brown, 4-angled, 5-7.5 cm, woody. Seeds broadly ovoid, glabrous on 1 side, pubescent on another, ca. 5 X 3-4 mm. Fl. Jul. 2n = 18, 22.

* Grasslands, slopes; 2400-3900 m. W Sichuan, NW Yunnan.