Plants ± tufted. Caudex branches slender to stout, not columnar, not sheathed with marcescent whole leaves. Stems ± ascending, sometimes nearly erect, 0.5–1.5(–3) dm, lengths 2–4 times basal leaves. Basal leaves 2–4 cm; petiole 1–2.5 cm, long hairs common to abundant, spreading to ascending, rarely loosely appressed, 1–2 mm, ± stiff, verrucose, short-crisped hairs sparse to abundant, sometimes nearly absent, cottony hairs absent, glands sparse; leaflets ± overlapping, central elliptic to obovate, 1–1.5 × 0.6–1.1 cm, petiolulate, base broadly cuneate, margins flat or slightly revolute, distal ± 2/3 incised ± 1/2 to midvein, teeth (3–)4 per side, ± approximate, surfaces ± dissimilar, abaxial reddish or greenish gray to white, long hairs 1 mm, cottony-crisped hairs common to dense, adaxial green or reddish to gray-green, long hairs sparse to abundant, short-crisped hairs absent or sparse to common. Cauline leaves 0–1. Inflorescences 2–5-flowered. Pedicels 1–2 cm in flower, to 3(–5) cm in fruit. Flowers: epicalyx bractlets narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 4–6 × 1–2.5 mm, (1/2–)2/3 to as wide as sepals, margins revolute, sometimes flat, red glands usually common, conspicuous; hypanthium 3.5–4.5 mm diam.; sepals 5–7 mm, apex subacute; petals 6–8 × (4–)5–8 mm, longer than sepals; filaments 0.7–1.2 mm, anthers 0.4 mm; carpels 40–60, apical hairs absent, styles columnar, strongly papillate-swollen in proximal 1/5–1/3, 0.9–1 mm. Achenes 1.2–1.8 mm. 2n = 42, 49 (Russian Far East).
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