Stems pale brown, tufted, 10--20 cm tall, slender, pubescent with retrorse hairs. Leaves sessile, brown, ovate-lanceolate, 5--10 × 1.5--3 mm, midvein raised and cartilaginous, glabrous, base rounded, apex acute. Flowers numerous, in dichotomous cymes; bracts small, herbaceous. Pedicel 0.5--3 cm, slender, pubescent with retrorse hairs. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, glabrous, inconspicuously 3-veined, margin membranous, apex acute. Petals 5, slightly longer than sepals, 2-cleft to base. Stamens 10; filaments ca. 3 mm; anthers gray-green. Ovary obovoid, ca. 1.5 mm; styles 3, ca. 3 mm.

* Gully slopes, river banks; 2500--3600 m. Xizang.