Description from
Flora of China
Anemone gelida Maximowicz, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 11: 21. 1890.
Leaf blade 1--1.5 × 1--2 cm. Scape 3--12 cm; cyme 1-flowered. Sepals 5--8, 5--7 × 3--4 mm. Sepals, pistils, and achenes glabrous. Fl. Jun--Sep.
Plants from Xizang, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sikkim with undivided involucral bracts, 5 or 6 sepals, and several pistils have been called Anemone rupestris var. wallichii Brühl (Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 5: 80. 1896).
Alpine meadows; 4800--5000 m. NW Sichuan, S Xizang, NW Yunnan (Zhongdian Xian) [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].
