Herbs perennial, 6--13 cm tall, ± drying black. Roots linear. Stems 2 or 3(--6), unbranched, minutely pubescent. Leaves almost all basal, 5 or 6(--8); petiole to 2.5 cm, slender, pubescent; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5--2.2 cm X 7--8 mm, abaxially sparsely pubescent, scurfy, adaxially glabrous, pinnatisect or pinnatipartite; segments 5--7 pairs, ovate, pinnatifid, dentate. Inflorescences short racemose or umbelliform, 5--10-flowered; bracts leaflike, ca. as long as calyx. Pedicel 2--3 mm. Calyx ca. 6 mm, sparsely pubescent; lobes 5, ± equal, dentate. Corolla red-purple, ca. 1.6 cm; tube erect, ca. 8 mm; galea bent at a right angle apically; beak ca. 5 mm; lower lip ca. 1 cm X 8 mm, sparsely ciliate, middle lobe smaller than lateral pair, lateral lobes nearly fully projecting. 2 filaments pubescent, 2 glabrous.

* Grassy slopes; ca. 3400 m. NW Yunnan.