Herbs perennial, (5-)9-36(-45) cm tall, sparsely to densely pilose at least on leaves. Rhizomes slender, sometimes with a few stolons. Stems slender, erect or decumbent, simple or rarely branched above middle. Basal leaves not fleshy, simple or rarely 2-4-foliolate; petiole 1-9(-12) cm, glabrous or rarely ciliate; leaf blade or terminal leaflets cordate or ovate, rarely suborbicular, (0.7-)1.5-5.5(-6.7) × (0.7-)1.5-4.3(-5) cm, always longer than wide, pilose or glabrous, base cordate, sometimes obtuse, subtruncate, or subcuneate, margin often repand-crenate, sometimes coarsely crenate, crenulate, or subentire, often distinctly mucronate at vein endings, apex obtuse; lateral leaflets (when present) petiolulate or sessile, much smaller than terminal one. Cauline leaves 1-4, simple or rarely 1 of which 2-or 3-foliolate, petiolate or rarely uppermost subsessile; petiole (0.4-)1-5(-6) cm, with basal auricles 0.4-2 × 0.2-0.4 mm; leaf blade similar to that of basal leaves, cordate, sometimes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-3.5(-6) × 1-3(-3.5) cm. Fruiting pedicels 3-12(-15) mm, ascending, divaricate, or reflexed, sometimes secund, glabrous, slender. Sepals ovate or oblong, 2-3.5 × 0.8-1.5 mm, glabrous, margin often membranous, base not saccate. Petals white, spatulate, (4-)5-7(-8) × (1.5-)2-2.5(-4) mm. Median filament pairs (2.5-)3.5-5 mm, lateral pair (2-)2.5-3.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5-1 mm. Ovules 20-42 per ovary. Fruit linear, 1.3-3(-3.3) cm × 0.8-1.2(-1.5) mm; valves torulose, glabrous; style (0.5-)1-2 mm. Seeds brown, ovate or broadly oblong, 0.8-1.1 × 0.6-0.9 mm, wingless. Fl. and fr. Feb-Jul.
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