Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5–25 cm tall, together with petioles canescent tomentose and villous. Radical leaves 2–6 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, sparsely villous; leaf blade pinnate with 2 pairs of leaflets; leaflets opposite, usually adjacent, subsessile, adaxially green, oblong to obovate-oblong, 1–2.5 × 0.8–1.5 cm, abaxially densely canescent tomentose or villous, white tomentose and villous on veins, adaxially white pilose, base cuneate or broadly so, margin pectinatifid, apex obtuse; segments oblong, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves undeveloped; stipules margin entire, rarely 2-fid. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, 3–7-flowered. Flowers 1.5–2 cm in diam. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acuminate; epicalyx segments narrowly oblong, shorter than sepals, abaxially tomentose and sericeous, apex subobtuse. Petals obcordate, usually 1–2 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Style terminal, base slightly thickened; stigma dilated. Achenes not seen. Fl. Aug.

Alpine meadows, ravines near snow line; 3000--3600 m. Xinjiang [Russia; SW Asia (Iran)].