Stems to 60 cm, erect or suberect, glabrous, slender, base thickened with scars and remnants of leaf sheaths, unbranched in the lower portion, terete, striate to subsulcate, several times dichoto-mously branched in the upper part, branches spreading and sympodial. Sheath 2-7 by 1½-4 mm, tapering into the petiole, ciliate with hairs to 2 mm; petioles 2-7 cm in the lower leaves, gradually shorter upwards, canaliculate, glabrous or towards the lamina with few to 2 mm long hairs; lamina 2½-7 by 4-8 cm, roundish-cordate, ternate, leaflets with petiolules to 1½ cm, 2-3-fid to 2-3-partite, segments 3-lobed and coarsely serrate, teeth acuminate and apiculate, upper surface sub-glabrous, beneath sparingly hirsute, especially on the nerves, base long-ciliate. Umbels opposite to each other leaf; peduncles 1¼-7 cm, terete to sul-cate, involucres 5-10, 5-10 mm, linear to filiform, broadest ones with few filiform teeth; pedicels 20-30, 5-8 mm, 10-15 mm in fruit, spreading, inner ones shorter. Calyx teeth hardly any. Petals 1-1½ by ¾-1 mm, white, ovate, acute. Styles 1-1½ mm. Mericarps to 5 by 3 mm.
Marshy, muddy localities, often in groups, 1500-2400 m.
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