Herbs perennial, creeping. Sterile shoots 2-4 cm. Flowering stems many branched, ascending, slender, 10-20 cm. Leaves alternate, remote, sessile, linear-spatulate, terete to ± flat, 7-10 × 0.2-0.3 cm, base shortly spurred, apex obtuse. Cyme 3-branched, corymbiform, 4-8 cm in diam. Flowers unequally 5-merous; pedicel thick, short. Sepals linear-oblong to subtriangular, 2-4 mm, base shortly spurred, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, 6-7 × ca. 1.5 mm, apex acuminate. Stamens 10; antesepalous ones subequaling or longer than petals; antepetalous ones slightly shorter than petals, inserted ca. 1.2 mm from petal base. Nectar scales minute, base broadly cuneate, apex rounded-truncate. Carpels lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, base connate for ca. 2 mm. Styles ca. 1 mm. Follicles horizontally stellately divergent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It is creeping. It has sterile shoots 2.4 cm long. Flowering shoots are slender and 10-20 cm long. The leaves are alternate and without stalks. They can be spoon shaped and 7-10 cm long by 2-3 mm wide.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in moist, shady places on slopes below 1,000 m above sea level in eastern China.
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Rocks in thin woods and on sunny slopes. Shady moist places on slopes; at elevations up to 1,000 metres.
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