Mondo dracaenoides (Baker) Farwell var. clarkei (J. D. Hooker) Farwell.

Plants stoloniferous. Roots slender, usually with fusiform, tuberous part near middle or tip. Leaves basal, tufted, sessile, grasslike, 7--30 cm × 2--3 mm, 5--7-veined, margin slightly serrulate. Scape 10--20 cm. Inflorescence a reduced panicle, 2--3 cm, 2--5-flowered; bracts lanceolate to narrowly ovate, basal one 6--7 mm. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicel 4--5 mm, articulate at or below middle. Tepals white, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 7--8 × 2.5--3.5 mm. Filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers ca. 4.5 mm. Style basally slightly widened. Fl. Jun--Jul. 2 n = 36*, ?38.

Forests, scrub forests, cliffs, streamsides; 2000--3500 m. E Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].