Tufted perennial; roots fibrous; stems and leaves with long spreading hairs, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves with petioles 1–17 cm long; lamina narrowly ovate in outline, 5–35 mm long, pinnate, with 3–5 cuneate, ovate or obovate, usually coarsely toothed, sessile or subsessile leaflets. Flowering stem 1 (rarely 2)-flowered, 1.7–10 (–25) cm long, not or not greatly elongating in fruit. Sepals 5, spreading, elliptic to ovate, 2.5–6 mm long, pubescent below. Petals 5–8, elliptic to obovate-cuneate, 4–9 mm long, golden-yellow; nectary near petal-base, shallowly pocket-like, to c. 0.5 mm long, with lobe triangular, usually asymmetric. Stamens 20–60. Pistils 12–40. Receptacle hirsute or glabrous in both zones. Achenes flattened, ovate to broadly elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm long, smooth; upper margin forming a ± prominent shoulder; beak 0.5–1 mm long, recurved.
Grows in bogs on mud, in mossy swamps and wet grassland of montane and subalpine regions; on the mainland predominantly above 800–2000 m, in Tasmania 200–1200 m alt.
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