Herbs perennial; rhizomes slender, erect. Stems few to several, erect or ascending, sparsely branched, slender, furrowed. Leaves sessile, linear, 15-20 × ca. 2 mm, 1-veined, apex acute. Inflorescences racemelike, often branched, few flowered; bracts at the base of pedicels, leaflike, 25-40 mm; pedicel 25-40 mm; bracteoles 2, leaflike, 1/4-1/2 as long as bracts, margin smooth or papillose. Perianth 5-merous, tubular, 4-5 × ca. 2 mm, lobes triangular-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, incurved, glabrous. Stamens 5, ca. 2.5 mm, not exserted. Style ca. 1.5 mm; stigma yellow, capitate. Mature nutlet not seen. Fl. Jun.

* About 2800 m. Yunnan.