Stems 5--25 cm tall, villous, sometimes with intermixed glandular hairs. Proximal leaves petiolate, distal leaves sessile; leaf blade 1.5--3 × 1--2 cm, pubescent, base rounded or cordate, apex acuminate. Flowers terminal; bracts leaflike, margin pub-escent, sometimes glandular hairy; pedicel slender, densely glandular hairy. Sepals ovate-oblong, 5--7 mm, abaxially glandular pubescent, margin membranous, apex acuminate. Petals obovate-oblong, 1--1.2 cm; lobes 3--4 mm. Stamens shorter than petals. Ovary globose; styles linear. Capsule included in sepals. Seeds brown. Fl. and fr. Jul.

* 800--1000 m. Anhui.