Herbs perennial. Roots thick, apex forked. Stems erect, 10-20 cm tall, unbranched, rigid, lanate. Petiole very short or obsolete; basal leaves scalelike, colorless, glabrous; upper leaves rhombic to circular, ca. 3-4 × 3-4 cm, reduced apically, densely lanate, base broadly cuneate, margin crenate to crenate-serrate near apex, apex acute, veins radiate from base. Bracteoles spinelike, to 1.2 cm, densely lanate. Flowers sessile. Calyx broadly campanulate, ca. 1.5 cm, densely lanate outside, glabrous inside, margin lanate; teeth ca. 7 mm, long acuminate. Corolla purplish to reddish, 2.2-2.8 cm, tube slightly incurved, 1.1-1.4 cm, densely lanate outside. Nutlets yellow-brown, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 10-20 cm high. The root is fleshy and cylinder shaped. The stems are 4 sided. They have a dense covering when young. The leaves only have short stalks. The lower leaves are small and like scales, the middle ones are opposite. They are 3-4 cm long and wide. The base is wedge shaped. There are teeth towards the tip. The leaves have a grey covering over both surfaces. The flowers are light purple to pink. There are 6 flowers in a ring without flower stalks. The fruit are nutlets that are yellow and 3 mm long.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in north-western Yunnan in China. It grows in alpine meadows among broken rocks in the high mountains. It grows between 3,400-4,700 m altitude. In Sichuan.
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Alpine, stony alluvial fans; at elevations from 2,700-4,700 metres.
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