Herbs perennial. Stems numerous, 15-19 cm tall, gray whitish, glabrous, pubescent toward apex. Leaf blade broadly rhombic, 1- or 2-pinnatipartite, glabrous or sparsely villous, base attenuate into a short wide petiole; lobes oblong, margin involute and ciliolate, apex obtuse or acute, with spines 1-1.5 mm. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered; bracts robust, needlelike-spinescent, spreading, 1.5-2.3 cm, glabrous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, tube sparsely villous; teeth broadly ovate, 6-8 × 5 mm, apex spinescent-subacute, spines ca. 1 mm. Corolla rose, ca. 2 × as long as calyx; upper lip much longer than lower lip, lobules 3-toothed; middle lobe of lower lip emarginate, lateral lobes oblong, apex 2-toothed.

Dry slopes. Xinjiang [Kyrgyzstan].