Herbs dwarf, procumbent. Stem absent. Basal leaves 3-6, forming a rosette; petiole finely striped, short, 3-6 cm, glabrous; leaf blade dark purple abaxially, green adaxially, ovate or triangular ovate, 6-12 × 4-8.5 cm, abaxially glabrous, rarely papilliferous along veins, adaxially glabrous, basal veins 5, leathery, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin entire, palmately divided to pinnate, apex obtusely acute. Panicle spiciform; rachis 2-5, nearly equal to leaf. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, slender. Tepals yellow-white or with some red, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, inner 3 larger, ca. 2 mm. Anthers purple-red. Fruit ovoid or broadly ovoid, 7-8 × 5-6 mm; wings narrow, 1-1.5 mm, with longitudinal veins at middle. Seeds ovoid, ca. 3 mm wide. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.
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A herb which keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are at the base. The leaves are boat shaped. They are thick and leathery. They are hairy underneath. The flowering spikes are 55 cm tall. The flowers are green and turn pink-purple.
It is a temperate plant. It grows between 3500-4500 m altitude in Uttar Pradesh in India. In China it grows between 4,500-5,300 m above sea level.
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Open rocky slope with gravel, river or stream bank, alpine meadows, steppes; at elevations from 3,600-4,800 metres
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