Roots becoming black when dry, tuberous, not ribbed, irregular. Stems erect, 10-45 cm, rigid, glabrous. Leaves: distal cauline long-petiolate. Leaf blade 2×-ternately compound; leaflets cuneate to reniform, undivided, cleft, or lobed, 2-7 mm wide, margins entire or sometimes weakly crenate, surfaces glabrous, somewhat glaucous. Inflorescences terminal, racemes, several flowered. Flowers: sepals lanceolate to obovate, in staminate flowers 1.7-3 mm, in pistillate flowers 0.7-1.5 mm; filaments colored, not white, ca. 1.5 mm; anthers 1.4-2 mm; stigma color unknown. Achenes few, not reflexed, nearly sessile; stipe 0.1-0.3 mm; body ovoid, not laterally compressed, adaxial surface 2.7-3.7 × 1.4-1.6 mm, glabrous, prominently 6-8-veined, veins not anastomosing-reticulate; beak 0.5-1 mm.
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