Stem robust, 18--35 cm tall, hispid or puberulent, usually simple. Leaf blade 4.7--9 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for less than 60% of blade radius; central lobe obovate-cuneate or obovate-rhombic, 3-lobed, distally irregularly dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules ovate; proximal leaves withered. Raceme cylindric-globose, (5--)10--15 cm, densely 9--19-flowered, retrorsely or spreading hispid; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones elliptic or oblanceolate. Pedicels 1.5--2(--5) cm; bracteoles distal, lanceolate, 9--15 mm, strigose. Sepals bluish gray or green, abaxially strigose and yellow glandular puberulent; spur pendulous, conic-subulate, 1.3--1.6 cm, usually slightly shorter than upper sepal, base 3--5 mm in diam.; other sepals smaller, 1.1--1.5 cm. Petals emarginate at apex, glabrous. Staminode limb 3--4 mm, emarginate or 2-lobed, glabrous, rarely sparsely white ciliate. Filaments glabrous. Ovaries sparsely puberulent or subglabrous. Fl. Aug--Oct.

* Forest margins, stony places near Rhododendron thicket margins, grassy slopes, gravelly slopes, alpine slopes, screes, cliffs; 3100--4900 m. SW Sichuan, SE Xizang, N Yunnan.