Herbs perennial, cespitose, 4-6 cm tall. Stem slender, brown glandular villous. Basal leaves with petiole long ciliate; leaf blade ovate or obovate, ca. 3 × 2.5 mm, adaxially and marginally brown villous. Cauline leaves sessile, ovate to broadly so, 4-6 × 4-5 mm, both surfaces and margin long ciliate, base cordate, apex obtuse. Flower solitary. Sepals erect, subelliptic to ovate, ca. 5.5 mm, veins 3-5, confluent into a verruca at apex, margin ciliate, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, obovate, ca. 1.1 cm, not callose, 5-7-veined, base contracted into a claw, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 5.7 mm. Ovary ovoid; styles erect, then divergent. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 16.

Gravel by alpine streams; 4000-5000 m. S Xizang [Nepal, Sikkim].