Plants perennial, 30–90 cm. Root conic, yellowish brown, 5–10 cm. Stem purplish green, ribbed, hispidulous above. Basal and lower cauline leaves petiolate, petioles 3–5 cm, sheaths ovate, 4–6.5 × ca. 2 cm; blade triangular-ovate, 1–2-pinnate; leaflets oblong to elliptic, 1.5–4 × 1–2 cm, base almost flat, margin crenate, apex obtuse, hispidulous along nerves and margin. Umbels 6–10 cm across; bracts absent; rays 9–19, 1.5–4 cm, thick, unequal and scabrous; bracteoles 6–10, linear, caudate-acuminate; umbellules 18–40-flowered; pedicels unequal. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white or yellowish white, rarely purple-red, long-ovate. Stylopodium dark purple. Fruit oblong to ovoid, 5–6.5 × 3.5–5 mm; dorsal ribs broad, plane, lateral ribs broad-winged, but narrower than the body; vittae 1–2 in each furrow, 2–3 on commissure. Fl. Jul–Aug, fr. Aug–Sep.
Shrubby thickets, mountain ravines, meadows; at elevations from 2,600-4,000 metres.
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