Herbs perennial. Rhizomes short. Stems 20--45 cm, strigose or hispid, branched. Basal leaves 2--5; petiole 4--12.5 cm, strigose or hispid; blade 3-partite, pentagonal, 1.3--4 × 1.8--4.5 cm, papery, strigose, base truncate or cordate-truncate, sometimes rounded or broadly cuneate, central lobe cuneate-obovate or cuneate, 3-lobulate, ultimate lobules ovate-triangular, 1- or 2-denticulate or entire; lateral lobes oblique flabellate-obovate, unequally 2-partite. Stem leaves smaller, short petiolate. Monochasium terminal, 2--5-flowered; bracts leaflike or linear. Flowers 1.3--1.8 cm in diam. Pedicel 1.5--6.5 cm, strigose. Receptacle glabrous. Sepals 5, elliptic, 3.5--4.5 mm, abaxially strigose. Petals 5, obovate, 7--10 × 4.5--6 mm, nectary pit covered by a scale, apex truncate-rounded. Stamens numerous; anthers narrowly oblong. Aggregate fruit subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam. Achene obliquely broadly obovate, ca. 2 × 1.7 mm, glabrous, smooth, indistinctly narrow marginate; style persistent, triangular, ca. 0.2 mm.

* 1500--2700 m. W Guizhou, SW Sichuan, Yunnan.