Shrubs 1–2 m tall. Branchlets dark brown-red, prominently angled, densely pubescent; buds ovoid, with several scales, pubescent, apex obtuse. Petiole very short or almost absent, softly hairy; leaf blade elliptic or oblong, 1.5–2 × 0.5–0.8 cm, appressed villous on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin deeply 3–7-serrate above middle, rarely entire, apex acute. Umbels sessile, 0.8–1.2 × 1–1.5 cm; pedicels 4–8 mm, pubescent; bracts linear, shorter than pedicels, hairy. Flowers unknown. Hypanthium campanulate, pubescent abaxially. Sepals triangular, reflexed or rarely erect in fruit, apex acute or subobtuse. Follicles erect-spreading, pubescent, more densely so on adaxial suture; styles terminal on abaxial side, divergent. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jul–Sep.

Mountain summits; ca. 2700 m. SW Sichuan (Muli Zangzu Zizhixian).