A caespitose, low growing, small, perennial herb. Rootstock very thick. Stem 3-10 cm long, slender, prostrate or ascending, leafy, sparsely pilose. Leaves ternate, petioles 1-4 cm long, sparsely pilose to glabrescent. Stipules generally obtusely toothed, basal membranous with broadly ovate auricles, middle submembranous, upper leafy. Leaflets 3, flabelliform, terminal leaflet trisect deeply to the midrib, lateral pair of leaflets bisect nearly to the midrib, leaflet segments 2/3-3/4 irregularly and obtusely dissected, sparsely pilose to glabrescent above and below. Flowers small, 6-8 mm diam, sepals pilose, outer broadly elliptic, obtuse, inner slightly longer, ovate, acute. Petals obovate, yellow, c. 3-4 mm long. Stamens 15-20. Carpels numerous. Style subterminal, filiform, c. 1.5 mm, much longer than the fruitlet, a little thickened below, stigma dilated.
Fl. Per.: July-August
Syntypes: Turkestan, Nokaniae Valley, Sarawschan river, Mura Pass, 3750 m, and Saratate, 2135-3660 m, O. Fedtschenko s. n. (T), Isotype (LE).
A-7 Chitral District, Shahjinali Pass, N. of Mastuj, J.D.A. Stainton 3045 (BM), Chutbargol, J.D.A. Stainton 37 (BM), Camp no. 2, South Barum glacier, c. 4,500 m, Wendelbo 277 (O).
Distribution: Tajikistan, Russia, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang), Afghanistan, Pakistan & East Europe.
In Pakistan this species has only been collected from Chitral district, not reported from Kashmir. It is generally found between 4,000–4,500 m, not so common.
