Plants glabrous. Rhizome globose, ca. 8 mm. Basal leaves unknown. Scape 8--10 cm tall. Bracts 5 or 6, 3-sect; segments obovate-cuneate, parted to middle, unequally lobed; lobes linear, apex acute or obtuse. Flower 1.2--1.5 cm in diam., shortly stalked. Sepals white, elliptic or oblong, obtuse at apex. Petals 4 or 5 obcordate-funnelform, emarginate outside, 2-lobed inside; stalks long, subequaling blade. Stamens ca. 10; filaments linear; anthers orbicular. Follicles 4 or 5, sessile, narrowly oblong, 8--10 × 2.5--3 mm; persistent style 3--5 mm, glabrous. Seeds 3 or 4, flat-globose, 1.8--2 mm in diam., slightly lucid. Fl. Mar.

* Forest margins; 1700--2100 m. W Sichuan (Baoxing Xian, Tianquan Xian).