Perennial; caudex at the top densely set with incrassate leaf rudiments. Stems to 13 cm, prostrate, sulcate, densely-hirsute towards the tip, hairs divaricate, to 1½ mm. Leaves sparse, rosettes absent; sheaths 4 by 2 mm, tapering into the petiole, margin long-ciliate, hairs to 3 mm; petiole to 7 cm, canaliculate, densely long-hirsute, hairs to 2 mm; lamina to 7 by 10-15 mm, of the lower leaves reni-form, of the upper leaves rhomboid in outline, tripartite or trifid with cuneate segments, apical portion broad-dentate, teeth ending in an apical hair, subcoriaceous, involute when dried up, pal-minerved, glabrous above, beneath sparsely hirsute on the nerves. Umbels opposite the leaves in the upper portion of the stem; peduncles ½-2 cm, densely hirsute; involucres 8-10, 4 mm, lanceolate, acute, canaliculate, glabrous with hairy teeth and tip; pedicels 10-20, to 4 mm, the inner ones shorter, glabrous, somewhat dilatate at the tip. Calyx teeth ½-1 by 1 mm, elliptical, triangular, acute. Petals c.1½ by 1 mm, apiculate. Styles to ¾ mm. Mericarps 2¼-3 by 1½-2 mm, glabrous, ribs indistinct.
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