Japan Flora: Resembles P. cuneijolia but smaller; radical leaves 5-10, rather fleshy, cuneate or obovate-cuneate, 2-4 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, very obtuse, with few coarse teeth toward the tip, flat, without distinct nerves; scapes 7-15 cm. long, 1- to 8-flow- ered, the bracts small, linear, the pedicels 1-2 cm. long, loosely granular-dotted; flowers not fully expanding, 12-15 mm. across; calyx narrowly cup-shaped, about 4 mm. long, 5- toothed to the middle; corolla white, the tube about 5 mm. long, yellow on the throat, the lobes obliquely spreading; capsules broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly longer than to as long as the calyx. Wet alpine slopes.