Herbs perennial, ca. 26 cm tall. Stem brown pilose proximally, glabrous in median part, shortly dark brown glandular hairy distally. Basal leaves with petiole 2.3-3 cm, adaxially and marginally sparsely brown glandular villous; leaf blade ovate-cordate, 2.3-3.3 × 1.8-2.8 cm, abaxially and marginally brown glandular hairy, base cordate, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves ca. 6; proximal ones petiolate, similar to basal leaves; distal ones sessile, ovate-cordate to ovate, 1.6-4.2 × 0.6-3 cm; most distal one adaxially and marginally shortly dark brown glandular hairy; others ± glandular pilose, base cordate, amplexicaul, apex obtuse. Cyme corymbose, ca. 6.5 cm, ca. 10-flowered; pedicels densely shortly dark brown glandular hairy. Sepals spreading, ovate, 3.2-3.3 × 2-2.2 mm, abaxially and marginally shortly dark brown glandular hairy, veins 3, not confluent at apex, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, ovate to broadly so, ca. 6 × 4.1-4.2 mm, 4-callose, 5- or 6-veined, base subcordate, contracted into a claw 0.6-0.7 mm, apex subobtuse or acute. Stamens ca. 4.6 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, ca. 3 mm; styles thick, ca. 0.7 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep.

This species is apparently very close to Saxifraga implicans.

* Meadows at riversides; 3700-3800 m. W Sichuan (Xiangcheng Xian).