Herbs, 9--22 cm tall. Roots fascicled, filiform. Stems 1 to numerous, erect, woolly-villous. Leaves almost all basal; petiole 2--5 cm, slender, sparsely pubescent; leaf blade ovate-oblong, 2--3 X 1--1.2 cm, long pubescent on both surfaces, pinnatisect or pinnatipartite; segments 6 or 7 pairs, widely spaced, oblong-ovate or oblong, pinnatifid or dentate. Inflorescences 2--3 cm, 6--8-flowered; bracts leaflike. Calyx cylindric, sparsely pubescent; lobes 5, ± equal, dentate. Corolla purplish red, ca. 1.8 cm; tube erect, slightly expanded apically, ca. 1.2 cm; galea ± bent at a right angle; beak straight or bent slightly downward, 4--5 mm; lower lip ca. as long as galea, sparsely ciliate, lobes ± equal, rounded. Filaments glabrous. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul--Aug.

* Alpine meadows; ca. 4000 m. SE Xizang, Yunnan.