Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. Stems pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.4–2.6(–3) dm. Basal leaves planar, 2–15 cm; sheathing base not strigose abaxially; petiole 3–9 cm; lateral leaflets (1–)2–4(–7) per side, separate to slightly overlapping, obovate to orbiculate or flabellate, (3–)5–15(–22) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into 5–15 broadly ovate teeth or oblanceolate lobes, sometimes also medially split to base (Kern Plateau), apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, prominently glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. Cauline leaves 1–2(–4); blade well developed. Inflorescences (1–)3–30(–60)-flowered, open, (0.5–)2–8 cm diam. Pedicels (5–)10–30 mm. Flowers 6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, broadly lanceolate to oblong, 1–2.5 mm; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5–1.5 × 2–4(–4.5) mm; sepals 2–4.5 mm, acute; petals yellow, oblanceolate to obovate, (1.5–)2–4 mm; stamens 15–35(–40), filaments 0.3–1 mm, anthers yellow, subrotund, 0.2–0.3(–0.5) mm; carpels (3–)10–20(–40), styles 1–2 mm. Achenes greenish white to light tan, 1–1.8 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate.
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