Perennial, prostrate or ascending herbs. Rootstock stout and woody, Stem slender, variable in length, 15-25 cm long, with minute tomentose and long villose glandulose hairs. Basal leaves 3-5, interruptedly pinnate, lower stem leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets, upper leaves ternate, 2.5-6 (8-10) cm long, petioles 1.5-3.0 cm long with long spreading villose and glandulose hairs. Basal stipules lanceolate, membranous and brown, cauline stipules oblong-lanceolate, leafy, entire or bifid. Leaflets 2-2.5 cm long, obovate, 7-12 serrate dentate, upper surface green and sparsely pilose, lower surface densely pilose, glandulose. Flowers 5-10 in loose corymbose cymes, 1.1-1.3 cm diam., petals obovate, emarginate, 5-6 mm long. Stamens about 20. Receptacle snowy white, sericeous. Carpels numerous. Syle c. 2 mm long, subterminal, filiform above, thickened below. Achenes wrinkled.

Fl. Per.: June-August

Type: Sirmour, Gerard, Wall. Catalogue no. 1023 (K-Wall.).

A-7 Chitral Yarkhoon Qarambar An, stony slope, 4308 m, Haidar Ali 4729 (KUH), Torikhoo Shekhlasht Khot, rock slope, 3626 m, Haidar Ali 4279 (KUH), Mastooj Chowinch, stream bank, 3000 m, Haidar Ali 1933 (KUH), B-6 D ir, Beg & Zeller 110 (PFI-B), Lowari Peak, Beg & Zeller 141 (PFI-B), Lowari Pass, ± 10,000 ft, S.A. Harris 16074 (BM), B-7 Chitral Dist., Madaklast, Beg & Zeller 978 (PFI-B), Urtsun Gol, ± 9,000 ft, J.D.A. Stainton 3191 (BM), Swat, Jabba Valley, E. of Kulalai, stony strands at river edge, c. 1,600 m, J. Lamond 1801 (E), Kalam, c. 35 30 N, 72 30 E, ± 2,200 m, K.H. Rechinger 19413 (G), Mansehra, Kaghan Valley, nr. Lulusar Village, ± 3,800 m, on stony stream beds, Muqarrab Shah & Jamshed 296 (ABD), B-8 Kashmir, Mountains behind Srinagar, 8,500 ft., R.R. Stewart 4116 (K), above north slope of Kamri Pass, 9-10,000 ft., R. R. Stewart 22779 (K), Sonamarg ± 10,000 ft, R. R. Stewart 7331 ½ (K), Baltistan ± 2,350 m, 6-6-1937, C. Troll (W), C-6 Waziristan, Shakai, 6-7,000 ft, J.F. Duthie (K), Kurrum Valley, J.E. Aitchison 595 (P), Khyber Agency, Tirah, on way to Dunga, 30-7-1967, Naseeb Khan (PFI-B), Sanda Pal, 30-6-1969, Naseeb Khan (PFI-B), on way to Saryara, 30-7-1967, Naseeb Khan (PFI-B).

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, India (Himachal Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh).