Herbs perennial. Stems densely clustered, pulvinate, 2--3 cm. Leaf blade subulate, 2--5 × ca. 1 mm, base broadened, margin not glandular ciliate. Flower solitary. Pedicel shorter than bracts, glandular hairy. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 4--5 mm, 1-veined, base broadened, margin broadly membranous, apex obtuse. Petals 5, white, elliptic, slightly longer than sepals. Stamens 10; anthers black. Ovary obovoid, ca. 1.5 mm. Styles 3, linear. Fl. Jul--Aug.

Icy steppes; ca. 4700 m. Xizang [NW India].