Prostrate caespitose perennial with thick roots. Stems up to 7cm long decumbent, leafy, pubescent. Leaves fasciculate, pale green-greyish, 4-6 x 0.5-1mm, pubescent, oblong, sessile, apex obtuse (appearing as forming dense whorls at the nodes). Calyx 5-5.5 mm, campanulate, pubescent; teeth 1.5-2 mm, triangular; acute, with a wide, white-yellow hyaline margin, ciliate, nerves 5. prominent below; Petals dull pink to lilac, slightly exserted from capsule, spathulate to obovate, with a ± crenate apex. Capsule partially exserted from the calyx.

Fl. Per.: July Fr. Per.: August.

Type: Described from Tibet, Zanskar.

Distribution: W. Tibet, N. Pakistan.

Found from 2740-3960 m.