Herbs 3-10 cm tall, densely lanate with trichomes to 1.5 mm; caudex covered with petioles of previous years. Petioles of basal leaves (0.3-)1-3(-4) cm, retrorsely lanate, papery, persistent, often ciliate at least basally; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, linear-oblanceolate, or rarely oblanceolate, (0.6-)1.2-4.5(-6) cm × 1.5-5(-7) mm, retrorsely lanate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary. Fruiting pedicels erect or ascending, (1.5-)2.5-5(-7) cm. Sepals oblong to oblong-linear, 5-8 × 1.5-2.5 mm, lanate. Petals purplish, broadly obovate, (1-)1.2-1.8 cm × (5-)6-7(-9) mm; claw 5-9 mm. Filaments of median staminal pairs 3.5-5 mm, those of lateral pair 2-3 mm; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm. Ovules 10-20 per ovary. Fruit lanceolate, oblong, or broadly ovate, (1-)2-5.2(-6) × (0.6-)0.9-1.5(-2) cm; valves glabrous or lanate, obscurely reticulate veined; septum complete; style obsolete; stigma entire or slightly lobed. Seeds biseriate, broadly ovate or suborbicular, rugose, 3-4.5(-5) × (2-)2.5-3 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.
* Scree, open scrub; 4200-5100 m. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.
