Plants 25--30 cm tall, glandular pubescent. Stems shortly branched, smooth. Cauline leaf petiole 3--4 cm; leaf blade 3-ternate, ca. 5 cm; petiolule 2--6 mm; leaflet blade broadly rhombic, broadly ovate, or orbicular-ovate, 0.5--1 × 0.6--1.3 cm, thinly herbaceous, base cuneate, rounded, or subcordate, apex 3-lobed; lobes entire or 2-toothed; veins slightly raised abaxially. Inflorescence flat topped, few flowered. Pedicel 4--8 mm. Sepals white, narrowly obovate, ca. 3.2 mm. Stamens ca. 15, ca. 3 mm; filament narrowly linear, narrower than anther; anther narrowly oblong, ca. 1.2 mm, apex obtuse. Carpels ca. 2; style persistent, ca. 1 mm; stigma elliptic, small. Achene stipe 1--1.2 mm; body obliquely globose, 2--2.7 × 1.5--2 mm; veins ca. 8, weak. Fl. Sep.

* Montane forest margins; ca. 3000 m. SE Xizang (Chawalong).