Ha Giang prov., Quan Ba distr., Bat Dai Son Nature Reserve, Bat Dai Son commune, Pai Chu Phin village, around point 23°07ʹ54.9ʺN 104°59ʹ24.1ʺE, 1000-1220 m a.s.l., karstic, highly eroded mountains composed of solid marble-like limestone, primary evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous (with Pseudotsuga sinensis) humid forest on steep rocky slopes near mountain tops. Small dwarf creeping epiphyte undershrub on mossy trees or occasionally lithophyte on rocky mountain top. Very common. 16 April 2018, L. Averyanov, Nguyen Sinh Khang, Chuong Quang Ngan, T. Maisak, VR 276 (holotype – LE01054344, isotype – HN). The species has rather isolated taxonomical position among its Asian congeners. Formally it may be compared with other microphyllous Vaccinium speces like V. chaetothrix Sleumer, V. moupinense Franchet, V. nummularia Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke, and V. sikangense Y. C. Yang. However, our palnt strickingly differs in minute narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate spirally arranged leaves and long creping plagiotropic stems with rather short ascending branches. Flowers commonly solitary, corolla broadly ovoid to almost globular, white. Species name refers certain resemblance shoots of our plant and leafy stems of Empetrum nigrum L.