Herbs perennial, 3-4 cm tall. Shoots branched. Flowering stem glabrous. Proximal leaves reduced toward median cluster of rosette leaves, narrowly obovate, 5-8 × 1-2 mm, carnose, both surfaces and margin glabrous, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves narrowly obovate, 6-8 × 1-2 mm, carnose, both surfaces and margin glabrous, apex obtuse. Flower solitary or cyme 2-4-flowered; pedicels ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Sepals erect or spreading, ovate, 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, veins 3, confluent at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, elliptic, 4-5 × 2.5 mm, 1-veined, base tapered into a short claw, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, ovoid, ca. 2 mm; styles divergent, ca. 2 mm. Fl. Aug.

* Rocks, cliffs; ca. 5000 m. Yunnan.