Herbs perennial, creeping, without prickles and glands, sometimes with intermixed small glandular hairs. Stems prostrate, rooting at nodes, slender, pubescent. Leaves compound, 3-foliolate; petiole 2–5 cm, pubescent, terminal leaflet shortly petiolulate, lateral leaflets subsessile; stipules free, elliptic, 5–7 × 3–5 mm, membranous, margin entire, rarely toothed, apex ± obtuse or shortly pointed; blade of leaflets suborbicular to broadly obovate, 2.5–4 × 3.5–5 cm, abaxially pilose along veins, adaxially pilose, base broadly cuneate to rounded, lateral leaflets with oblique base, margin unevenly coarsely obtusely serrate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, to 2 cm in diam., 1-or 2-flowered; bracts elliptic, smaller than stipules, membranous, puberulous, margin entire or toothed. Pedicel 2–5 cm, pubescent, sometimes bristly. Calyx abaxially pubescent, or intermixed sparsely reddish brown bristly; sepals 5 or more, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 7–10 × (2–)3–4 mm, undivided, rarely shallowly laciniate, apex long acuminate. Petals white, obovate-oblong to linear-oblong, 7–11 × 3–5 mm, base clawed. Stamens many, shorter than petals; filaments enlarged toward base. Pistils 4–20, shorter than stamens; ovary glabrous or slightly puberulous; styles glabrous or basally slightly pubescent. Aggregate fruit red, globose, glabrous, with few semiglobose drupelets; pyrenes rugose. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jul–Aug.
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A herb. It lies along the ground. The leaves have stalks. There is a leafy structure at the base of the leaf stalk. The leaves are divided into 3 leaflets. The leaflets only have short stalks. They are 0.8-2.5 cm long by 0.5-2 cm wide. They are round with fine teeth. They can be slightly hairy. The flowers have stalks and are white. The fruit is round and red.
A subtropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 2100-2900 m altitude. In China 2,000-4,000 m above sea level. It grows in moist, shady places. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan in China.
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Grassy slopes, forests; at elevations from 2,000-4,000 metres.
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