Plants 5–30 cm. Rhizome narrowly conic, or elongate-globose, ca. 5 mm across. Stem solitary, slender. Basal leaves petiolate, petioles 2–5 cm, sheaths narrowly lanceolate; blade triangular, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–3 cm, 2–3-ternate-pinnate; ultimate segments cuneate-obovate or obovate, ca. 5 × 5 mm, apex often 3-toothed. Umbels 2–3 cm across; peduncles 2–5 cm, slender; bracts usually absent; rays 3–4, 1–2 cm, unequal; bracteoles 1–3, 2–3 mm; umbellules 6–14 mm across, 3–5-flowered; pedicels 2–7 mm, unequal. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals purple-red, ovate, ca. 2 mm; apex linear, ca. 1 mm. Fruit broad-ovoid, ca. 1–1.5 × 1–1.5 mm; vittae minute, 2 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. Aug.