It is a smaller plant, less than 1 meter tall, with smaller leaves (3-6 cm long), and smaller inflorescences with only 1-8 flowers.
Flowering occurs from April to June, and fruiting occurs from September to October.
Southern Hunan (Tiantangshan), northeastern Guangxi (Lingui), western and southwestern Sichuan, northwestern Yunnan (Nanjian, Jingdong), western and northeastern Yunnan, and southern to southeastern Tibet.
The umbel inflorescence blooms simultaneously with the leaves, 5-15 cm in diameter, without large sterile flowers. It has reddish-brown glands on the calyx tube, with 5-7 primary rays bearing flowers on the second to third order branches.