Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous, subequally thick. Stems 10--15 cm, brown puberulent only below flower, simple. Basal leaves several; petiole 1.5--3.5 cm, glabrous; blade spatulate, cuneate, or narrowly obovate, 1--2.5 × 0.6--1.5 cm, papery, glabrous, base cuneate, apex 3--5-lobed. Stem leaves 2 or 3, lower ones short petiolate, similar to basal ones or 3-lobed, uppermost leaf sessile, palmately partite, lobes linear-lanceolate. Flowers solitary, terminal, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Receptacle densely puberulent. Sepals 5, ovate, ca. 8 mm, abaxially densely dark brown puberulent. Petals ca. 7, broadly obovate or obovate, ca. 11 × 8--11 mm, nectary pit without a scale, apex rounded or rounded-truncate. Stamens numerous; anthers oblong. Aggregate fruit ovoid, ca. 5 × 4 mm; carpels numerous. Achene slightly bilaterally compressed, obliquely ovoid, ca. 2.5 × 0.8 mm, glabrous; style persistent, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul--Aug.
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