It is an evergreen dwarf shrub, approximately 30 cm tall, with slender branches densely covered with grayish scales. Leaf buds are scale-like and shed. Leaves are usually clustered at the tips of branches, narrowly elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 6-12 mm long and 2.5-5 mm wide, blunt or rounded at the tip, with short pointed tips, and blunt or wedge-shaped bases. Upper leaf surfaces are dark grayish-green, covered with adjacent light-colored scales, while lower surfaces are light yellow and densely covered with overlapping light yellow-brown scales. Leaf stalks are 1-1.5 mm long, covered with light-colored scales, and hairless.
It grows at altitudes of 2,900-3,380 meters.
The type specimen was collected from Zhaotong, Yunnan.
It grows in mossy swamps and shrubby grasslands.