Tufted perennial; roots fibrous-fleshy; stems and leaves with fine hairs, usually spreading near base, (sub-)appressed above. Leaves with petioles 1–15 cm long; lamina ovate in outline, c. 4–27 mm long and wide, trifoliolate to pinnate with 5 leaflets; leaflets suborbicular to ovate, coarsely toothed, c. 3–10 mm long; petiolule 0.5–6 mm long. Flowering stems 1 (rarely 2)-flowered, shorter than leaves at anthesis, exceeding leaves in fruit. Sepals 5, spreading, oblong or ovate, c. 2–4 mm long, sparsely hirsute below. Petals 0–5, narrowly elliptic, 1.7–5 mm long, pale yellow; nectary a shallow crescentic bracket, 0.5–1.5 mm above petal-base. Stamens 8–22. Pistils 8–28. Receptacle hispid in stamen zone, glabrous or sparsely hispid above. Achenes flattened, ovate, 1.3–3.8 mm long, smooth, without marginal ridges; beak 0.4–1 mm long, recurved.
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