Perennial; caudex with rosettes from which flower-bearing stems and lateral rosettes, sessile or on short stolons from the upper leaf axils. Stems erect, 30-40 cm, terete, striate, sparingly hirsute, more densely at the nodes. Leaves nearly all in a rosette; sheaths 3-6 by 5-8 mm, at the back and the margin with 1-2 mm long hairs, abruptly contracted into the petiole; petiole 6-8 cm, hirsute, more densely towards the lamina; lamina 4-4½ by 6-7 cm, roundish in outline, deeply cordate, ter-nate, the central leaflet nearly 4 by 3½ cm, tripartite, lateral leaflets hardly smaller, obliquely trifid, all ultimate segments 2-3-lobed, coarsely serrate, rather sparingly appressedly hirsute; cauline leaves smaller, shorter petioled, bracts of the dichasium nearly sessile. Peduncles 3-4 cm, terete, striate, shortly hirsute; involucres numerous, 7-10 by ½ mm, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate with few hairs at the margin and on the midrib, spreading, appressed in fruit; pedicels 7-11 mm, spreading, suberect in fruit. Calyx teeth nearly 2½ mm, subulate. Petals 2-2½ by 1 mm, ovate, white. Styles nearly 2 mm. Mericarps nearly 4½ by 3½ mm, entirely glabrous.
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