Small, often ± slender, sparsely pilose, greyish green to yellowish green herb, sparingly to much-branched near base, 15-80-(200) mm high, ± decumbent; stems usually slender, long-pilose; internodes usually visible. Lvs cauline; petiole up to 3 mm long and winged; blade (3)-4-6-(8) × 4-8-(10) mm, 3-partite with each segment ± flabellate and shallowly to deeply divided into 2-5-(7), oblong, obtuse or subacute lobes, with scattered hairs or silky pilose on both surfaces; stipules to 3-(4.5) mm long, adnate to petiole, divided into several lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate lobes. Infl. axillary, of small cymes, ± sessile, usually < and hidden by investing stipules; fls sessile or shortly pedicellate. Fr. 1-1.7 mm long; hypanthium ellipsoid, flattened, slightly narrowed below teeth, pale yellow to brown, ribbed, with short hairs, often dense especially in upper part; calyx teeth 0.3-0.5 mm long, triangular to oblong, ± connivent, usually with short hairs on back and sometimes with long hairs on margins; epicalyx minute or 0.