Herbs perennial. Leaves basal; petiole 6--16 cm, spreading white pubescent; leaf blade orbicular to reniform, 1--7 cm wide, strigillose, base cordate, sinus penetrating 1/3 into leaf blade, crenate-lobate; lobes crenate to dentate. Scapes (7--)15--30 cm; umbels 12--40-flowered; bracts linear to elliptic, 3--9 mm. Pedicels nearly equal, 1--1.8 cm, puberulous. Calyx 3--4 mm, with minute bristlelike hairs, parted to 1/2; lobes triangular to ovate; veins 3--5, distinct. Corolla white, rarely pink, 5--8 mm in diam.; tube ca. as long as calyx; lobes cuneate-oblong to obcordate, 2--2.5 X 1.5--2 mm, emarginate.

Glades, at margins of mountain woods, ravines; 1500--3200 m. W Hubei, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal]