Herbs perennial, 5--8 cm tall, pubescent, drying slightly black. Roots fleshy. Stems usually 3--5, short or ± absent, spreading to ascending. Leaves mostly basal; petiole to 2 cm, pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate-oblong, 1--3 cm, pubescent along veins, pinnatisect; segments 5--8 pairs, ovate to oblong, margin double dentate. Stem leaves usually pseudo-opposite, smaller than basal leaves. Pedicel 1--2 mm. Calyx oblong, 1/3 cleft anteriorly, densely white villous; lobes 3, unequal. Corolla red, with purple-red galea, ca. 6 cm; tube ca. 5 cm, villous with multicellular hairs; galea nearly falcate, much expanded, ca. 5 mm; beak ± incurved, 5.5--7 mm; lower lip ca. 1 X 1.5 cm, ciliate, middle lobe smaller than lateral lobes, emarginate. Anterior filaments pubescent. Fl. Aug, fr. Sep.

* Abies fabri forests on slopes; ca. 3900 m. SW Sichuan.