Perennial ascending herbs. Rootstock divided, very much thickened, tufted, with dark-brown remains of scale leaves. Basal leaves 5-foliate with lower distant pair of leaflets, petioles 1-3 cm. long, floccose-tomentose. Basal stipules ferrugineus, auricles lanceolate, upper stipules ovate and green. Leaflets obovate, sessile, 8-12 x 6-8 mm., upper surface with both straight and floccose hairs, lower surface niveo-tomentose, margin serrate-dentate with 9-13 oblong obtuse teeth. Flowers 1-3, c. 1.5 cm. diam. Calyces densely sericeous, outer sepals narowly oblong obtuse, inner sepals ovate acute. Petals c.6 mm long, obcordate. Stamens about 25. Carpels numerous, styles c 1 mm long, thickened below, somewhat coniform, a little pappilose.