Herbs perennial, 18.5-37 cm tall. Stem brown glandular pilose. Cauline leaves 10-13; proximal ones with petiole 0.3-3.3 cm, glandular pilose, gradually shorter to absent distally on stem; leaf blade ovate-cordate or ovate to narrowly so, 2.4-3.5 × 0.7-2.5 cm, ± glandular hairy, base cordate to rounded, apex subobtuse or acute. Pleiochasium paniculate, 3.2-14 cm, 6-30-flowered; most proximal branch 6-7 cm, 2- or 3-flowered; pedicels shortly dark brown glandular hairy. Sepals reflexed, ovate or broadly so to narrowly triangular-ovate, (1.1-)2.5-3 × 2-2.2(-4.8) mm, abaxially shortly glandular hairy, adaxially glabrous or distally sparsely glandular hairy, veins 3(-7), not confluent at apex, margin membranous, ± glandular ciliate, apex obtuse or acute. Petals yellow, purple spotted, usually ovate to elliptic, rarely broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 4.5-6.8 × 2.6-3.6 mm, 4-6(-8)-callose or obscurely so, 3- or 4(-8)-veined, base contracted into a claw 0.5-1 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens 3-5.5 mm. Ovary subsuperior, broadly ovoid, 2.2-4.2 mm; styles 0.5-1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.

* Forests, scrub meadows, alpine meadows, rock crevices; 3000-4200 m. W Sichuan (Daocheng Xian), SE Xizang (Mêdog Xian), NW Yunnan.