Rather stout depressed herb us. < 4 cm. tall, sparsely clad in stiff white hairs with tuberculate base, stock stout, ± branched, erect or ascending. Lvs radical, rosulate, coriac., on stout flattened petioles 0·5-2.5 cm. long; sheath broad; lamina 3-foliolate, 1-1·5 × 0·5-1 cm., pale green; Iflts deeply lobed to pinnatifid; segs subacute to obtuse, ± hairy, irregularly cut. Scapes 1-4, stout, 1-1·5 cm. long, 1-fld, hispid. Fls subsessile at anthesis, 8-9 mm. diam.; sepals 5, linear to narrow-oblong; petals 5, yellow, linear-spathulate, barely > sepals; gland 1, slightly below middle. Fruiting heads globose, ± 6 mm. diam.; achenes obliquely suborbicular-ovoid, slightly compressed, margin thickened, ± 2 mm. long; style 0·5-1 mm. long, minutely hooked.

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

2n = 48

Tufted perennial, to 5 cm tall; rhizome 0. Lvs orbicular or ovate, often dark-blotched, usually 3-lobed to about 1/2 way, rarely entire; lobes crenate or shallowly pinnatifid, sparsely hairy, especially on margins and petiole, or rarely glabrous, 8-15 mm diam.; petiole broad and flat. Fls solitary, sessile or on very short hairy scapes, 5-10 mm diam. Sepals spreading, sparsely hairy. Petals 5, yellow, linear-oblong; nectary single, c. 0.5 mm from petal base, with a very small scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 30-60, somewhat flattened, glabrous, brick red with dark tips; body 1.5-2 mm long; beak curved, c. 0.5 mm long.