Herbs perennial, efarinose, encircled at base with small membranous bud scales. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 2--5 cm, membranously winged, markedly pilose; leaf blade elliptic to oblong or oblong-obovate, 5--8 X 4--5 cm, membranous or subpapery when dry, abaxially densely minutely glandular, with white multicellular hairs along midvein and lateral veins, adaxially minutely glandular, base subcuneate, margin obscurely crenate to slightly repand, apex rounded. Scapes 9--14 cm, with short glandular hairs intermixed with few long hairs; umbels 5--9-flowered; bracts ovate, 5--6 X 3--4 mm, ciliolate. Pedicel 1.5--2 cm, with few short glandular hairs intermixed with few long hairs. Calyx campanulate, 8--10 mm, puberulous, parted to middle; lobes ovate, ciliate, apex acute. Corolla and capsule unknown. Fl. early spring.

* Grassy slopes bordering plateaus; ca. 2500 m. NE Yunnan