Plants subscapose. Stems 4–28 cm, glabrous or downy, ?hairs to 1 mm, sometimes septate-glandular?. Leaves: basal 3–13 cm, blade pinnate to interruptedly pinnate, major leaflets 13–26, alternating with 0–14 minor ones, terminal leaflet slightly larger than major laterals; cauline 0.7–2 cm, stipules adnate to leaf, indistinguishable from pair of lobes, blade ?bractlike, not resembling basal, alternate?, simple, pinnatifid to 3-fid. Inflorescences 1–3(–4)-flowered. Pedicels woolly, sometimes glandular. Flowers erect; epicalyx bractlets 1.5–7 mm; hypanthium green, slightly purple-tinged to strongly purple; sepals erect to erect-spreading, 3–10 mm; petals spreading, yellow, obovate to nearly orbiculate, 5–12(–17) mm, longer than sepals, apex broadly rounded to irregularly emarginate. Fruiting tori sessile, glabrous. Fruiting styles wholly persistent, not geniculate-jointed, 2–5(–10) mm, apex not hooked, glabrous throughout or pilose only at base. 2n = 56.
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