Yunnan: Kunming Municipality: Kunming.
Xi Shan Qu; E side of Xi Shan (Western Hills).
Broadleaved evergreen, coniferous and deciduous forest.
24°58'0"N,
102°38'0"E;
2100-2350 m.
Woods and bamboo thickets, sometimes with C. alpina subsp. imaicola. Colonial plants; stems and leaves somewhat purplish; flowers opening on spreading pedicels, not clustered at apex of inflorescence; petals white or slightly pink.
1984 Sino-Amer. Bot. Exped. (Bruce Bartholomew, David E. Boufford, Hsi-Wen LI, Cheng-Gong MA, Dan H. Nicolson, Tsun-Shen YING & Shao-Wen YU)