Herbs perennial. Stems erect or ascending, 30-60 cm. Leaves sessile or short petiolate, linear-lanceolate, 5-10 × 0.8-1.7 cm, green or abaxially gray hairy, base rounded or cordate, margin serrate, apex acuminate. Spikes cylindric, robust, 2.5-7.5 cm; bracts longer than calyx, ovate or lanceolate, apex apiculate, ciliate. Flowers sessile. Calyx ca. 6 mm, throat subtruncate; teeth subulate-acuminate, as long as tube, sparsely villous. Corolla yellow, ca. 2 × as long as calyx (specimens not seen).

Alpine grasslands; ca. 4200 m. Xizang [India, Pakistan].