Plants ca. 15 cm tall. Stems in clusters, apparently unbranched, terete, 1-2 mm thick, puberulous. Flowers unisexual, in dense, elongated clusters; bracts imbricate, densely brownish gray pilose; involucral bracteole 1, broadly triangular, ca. 1 × 1 mm. Male flowers not known. Female flowers: perianth obovoid, lobes 5, triangular, 0.5-1 mm. Style short; stigma peltate. Drupe globose, rarely globose-ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous. Seed black, ovoid, ca. 2.5 × 2 mm.

This species is epiparasitic on Taxillus delavayi.

* Mixed forests; ca. 2400 m. Yunnan (Jingdong).