Tufted perennial; roots fibrous. Most leaves basal; petiole 1–15 cm long; lamina broadly ovate, 0.7–6 cm long, often broader than long, ternately or palmately lobed with 7 subequal teeth, rarely trifoliolate; leaflets cuneate to suborbicular, coarsely toothed, pilose on both surfaces, hairs spreading or appressed. Cauline leaves when present simple, 3-lobed to linear-lanceolate. Flowering stems 1–4-flowered, 5–25 cm long, hairs spreading in lower part, appressed above. Sepals 5, reflexed, elliptic, 4–7 mm long. Petals 5, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 6–9 mm long, golden-yellow, often tinged purple below; nectary near petal-base, with lobe rounded or truncate, 0.7–1.2 mm long, free for most its length. Stamens 15–35. Pistils 20–50. Receptacle stamen zone glabrous, hispid above. Achenes 1.7–3 mm long, smooth; marginal rib narrow, sometimes with a line of subappressed hairs; beak slender, 1.2–2 mm long, straight with a recoiled tip.
Grows in forest, woodland, and moist grassland, on the mainland mainly 700–1500 m, in Tasmania 200–1020 m alt.
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