Plants branched from base, stems retrorse strigose. Corolla ca. 2.5 mm; limb 1.5-2 mm wide; lobes narrowly oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Nutlets of lower part of inflorescences homomorphic; nutlets of upper part heteromorphic, (1 or) 2 (or 3) nutlets with glochids 0.2-0.5 mm, other nutlet(s) with glochids 2-4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.

Sunny slopes, rocky hills, desert communities of Haloxylon ammodendron and Anabasis salsa. Qinghai (Golmud Xian), N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan].