Stems to 45 cm tall, slender, base ca. 4 mm in diam., glabrescent below, brownish pubescent above, sometimes short-stipitate glandular. Lower cauline leaves: petiole to 15 cm; blade broadly ovate, 3-6.5 × 3-6 cm, base cordate; upper cauline leaves sessile, narrower, ovate or lanceolate, adaxially sparsely to moderately villous, sparsely to moderately glandular, reticulate veins prominent on both surfaces. Phyllaries glabrous.

● E Xizang, NW Yunnan.