Stems 20-45 cm, erect and terete in the lower portion, terete or subangular in the upper part, with spreading branches, the whole densely velvety hairy with yellowish brown indumentum, glabrescent; glabrous in the young state. Leaves rather densely set in the basal part, more remote upwards, hirsute to glabrous; petioles of the lower leaves to 13½ cm, gradually shorter upwards, in the upper leaves nearly absent, all of them slightly sheathing at the base, hairy like the stems; lamina palmatifid to ternate, segments rhomboid to obovate, the middle one 3-lobate to trifid, besides, all biserrate with acuminate teeth; lamina of the upper leaves smaller and more cuneate. Umbels opposite the leaves; peduncles 1-5 cm, to 7 cm in fruit, terete, grooved, hairy like the stems; involucres 7-10, to 3 mm broad, shorter as or as long as the pedicels, lanceolate, hairy like the leaves; pedicels 25-40, to 7 mm, to 15 mm in fruit, inner ones shorter. Calyx teeth to ½ mm, acute or obtuse. Petals to 2 by 1 mm, cream to pink, elliptical, acute. Styles nearly ½ mm, to 1½ mm in fruit. Mericarps to 6 by 4 mm, equal.
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