Tufted, often clump-forming perennial, glabrous or with sparse spreading hairs; roots fibrous. Leaves with petiole 1–15 cm long; lamina orbicular or deltate in outline, 6–45 mm long, trifoliolate or biternate, segments acute, usually lobed and dentate. Flowering stems 5–15 cm long, 1-flowered. Sepals 5 (–7), spreading, elliptic to ovate, 2–4 mm long, glabrous or with sparse long spreading hairs below. Petals 5 (–7), obovate-cuneate, 7–14 mm long, truncate, golden-yellow; nectary near petal-base in a small pit without distinct lobe. Stamens 30–55. Pistils 30–80. Receptacle ± glabrous in stamen zone, hirsute above. Achenes lenticular, ovate to elliptic, 2.4–3 mm long; margins narrowly ridged; lateral faces smooth or slightly dimpled; beak slender, 1–1.7 mm long, straight or recurved-arching.
Grows in wet alpine herbfields and springs, common below semi-permanent snow patches; above 1760 m, rarely down to 1550 m (Thredbo Gorge).
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