Stems more than 4 cm tall, to 11 cm at fruiting, simple. Basal leaves 1 or 2(or 3); petiole 3--4 cm, base sheathed; leaf blade not green when dried, pentagonal-reniform, 1--1.5 × 1.6--2.8 cm, base deeply cordate, 3-sect; central segment broadly rhombic, 3-fid, lobules with 1 or 2 triangular teeth; lateral segments obliquely rhombic, unequally 2-fid nearly to base. Cauline leaves similar to basal ones, long petiolate. Flower solitary, 2.5--3.2(--3.7) cm in diam. Sepals 5, yellow, abaxially usually purple-brown, not green when dried, obovate or broadly obovate, 1.1--2 cm, apex rounded, persistent. Petals ca. 12, spatulate-linear, subequaling filaments or slightly shorter, 4--5 × 1--1.2 mm. Stamens 5--7 mm. Follicles 4--6, ca. 9 mm; persistent style ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun, fr. Jun.

* Grassy slopes; 3000--4200 m. SW Sichuan (Muli Zang Zu Zizhixian), NW Yunnan (Zhongdian Xian).