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Female flowers: pedicels 2.5 mm long, stout; calyx c. 4 mm long, calyx lobes 3 × 0.8 mm, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute, irregularly glandular-denticulate or stipitate-glandular to subentire, glabrous or almost so; petals 6–8 × 1–1.5 mm, linear-oblanceolate, subacute, glabrous, white or pinkish; disk deeply 5-lobed, the lobes scale-like; ovary c. 2 × 2 mm, subglobose, glabrous; styles 2 mm long, united at the base, erect, stigmas bifid, papillose.
An erect several-stemmed somewhat fleshy perennial herb up to 30 cm high; tubers up to 16 × 3.5 cm, elongate or ellipsoid, smooth, red, lying some 15 cm below ground level; stems glabrous below, pubescent above, rarely completely glabrous, reddish-tinged, arising at ground level from one or more small underground stems (caudiculi) produced from the tuber.
Leaf blades 2–8(12) × 1–4 cm, irregularly pinnatipartite, cuneate or rounded at the base, membranaceous, usually glabrous, rarely sparingly puberulous towards the base, glaucous; the lobes acute, lobulate, serrate or entire, with hyaline margins; lateral nerves often indistinct.
A herb. It has several stems and can be fleshy. It grows 30 cm tall. The tubers are 16 cm long by 3.5 cm wide. The leaves are compound and 2-8 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The flowering shoot are 3 cm long. The fruit is 7-8 mm long by 10-12 mm wide.
Seeds 7–8 × 4.5–5 × 3.5 mm, compressed-ellipsoid, smooth, pale yellowish-grey, with a 2-lobed flabelliform caruncle c. 2 × 4.5 mm, dark chestnut-brown at the base shading to buff.
Perennial herb, up to 150 mm tall. Stems tufted at apices. Leaves shortly petioled, runcinate-pinnatifid. Sepals with hyaline denticulate edges. Flowers white or pale yellow.
Stipules c. 2 mm long, simple, setaceous-filiform, or bifid or trifid with filiform segments, eglandular, ochreous, subpersistent.
Inflorescences up to 3 cm long, terminal, shortly pedunculate; bracts 2–5 mm long, lanceolate, acute, denticulate to subentire.
Fruit 7–8(10) × 10–12 mm, depressed-globose, shallowly 3-lobed, very shallowly tuberculate-verruculose, glabrous.
Petioles 1–8 mm long.
