Herbs perennial. Roots slender. Flowering stems erect or ascending, purplish, 5–10 cm tall, together with petioles canescent tomentose, rarely pilose. Radical leaves 3–6 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially white villous or glabrescent; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets sessile or terminal one shortly petiolulate, adaxially green, elliptic to ovate, 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 cm, abaxially densely canescent tomentose, appressed sericeous on veins, adaxially appressed sericeous, base broadly cuneate, margin lobed, apex obtuse; lobes fasciated, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves 1 or 2, shortly petiolate, small; stipules ovate-lanceolate, margin entire or 1- or 2-serrate. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, many flowered. Flowers usually nodding, 1–1.4 cm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2 cm, tomentose. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, apex acute; epicalyx segments fasciated, slightly shorter than sepals, abaxially densely canescent tomentose and pilose, apex subobtuse. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly 2 × as long as sepals, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 18. Carpels numerous; style subterminal, nearly 3 × as long as ovary; stigma slightly dilated, capitate. Achenes not seen. Fl. Jul.

Rocks; ca. 2600 m. Chongqing (Wuxi Xian).