Perennial 20-80 cm high, much branched. Stem smooth or indistinctly striate, sometimes purplish, glabrous or with glands. Leaves with usually short or without petioles, 2-3-pinnate, leaflets 2-18 x 1.5-15 mm, ovate or obovate, base round or subcordate, profoundly incised-lobate or crenate or dentate, lobes of the last order sometimes denticulate, but more often entire, usually glandular, green on both sides, undersurface glabrous or slightly puberulous. Inflorescence composed of several ± loose racemes or panicles, leafy, pyramidal. Bracts usually 3-lobate, compound or undivided. Pedicels (1-) 10-30 mm, usually long, slender, patent, straight or indistinctly curved downwards. Sepals 2-4 x 1-2 mm, elliptic, obtuse or subacute. Stamens 10-15, filaments 2-8 mm, filiform, whitish, anthers long pointed, yellowish, 1-3 mm long. Carpels sessile or very shortly stalked, 3-5 x 2 mm, obovate-falcate, compressed, with very prominent branched anastomosing (4-6) ribs. Style short, straight, persistent.
Fl. Per.: June-July.
Type: Nepal, Wallich Catalogue no. 3715.
B-7 Hazara: Hazara, Duthie 19076 (RAW), Miranjani, 19.7.1958, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW), Swat: above Bishigram, 10-11000', R.R. Stewart & A. Rahman 24989 (RAW), Kashmir: B-8 Kun Pathar, Masjid Gali, R.R. Stewart 18473 (RAW), Raikot-Aliabad, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir 23845 (RAW, KUH),.Haji Pir Pass, M. Nath 481 (KUH).
Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir to Bhutan, S. E. Tibet, W. China. In Pakistan found between 2700-4000 m.
