Tomentose, procumbent perennial herbs, forming dense moss-l ike cushions. Leaves trifoliolate and palmate, petioles 5-8 mm long, tomentose, stipule 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous adaxially except apices which are slightly tomentose. Leaflets sessile, usually articulated at base, 4-7 x 2-4.5 mm, oblong-elliptical or cuneately obovate, blades often folded longitudinally wh en dried and the middle one larger than the lateral ones, middle blades with 3 glandular, apical teeth, middle tooth generally smaller than 2 lateral ones, lateral blades with 2 equal glandular teeth at the apex, tomentose on both surfaces, hairs, whitish, soft, spreading. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together at ends of short bracteolate branches or in the axils of leaves, 4-merous, mostly staminate or sometimes perfect (and the plants staminate or polygamous), pedicles 1-1.5 mm long, tomentose, bracts 3-4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, linear-oblong, entire, acute, bract stipules 1.5-2.0 x 1-1.2 mm, bracteoles linear, 0.7-1.0 mm long, ca 0.5 mm wide, tomentose abaxially, glabrous and veined adaxially. Epicalyx lobes 4, sometimes 5, 1.2-1.7 x 0.2-0.4 mm. Sepals 4, 2-2.5 x 0.8-1.8 mm, oblong-deltoid, acute, tomentose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Petals 4, pale yellow, 2-3.5 x ca. 1 mm, oblong-obovate, obtuse or emerginate, perfect flowers usually with larger petals. Stamens 4 (-5), antisepalous, inserted at the edge of the lobed disc, filaments 0.5-1.1 mm long, linear, usually longer in staminate flowers, anthers ca. 0.2 mm long and broad, rounded-elliptical, disc 1-1.5 mm across, with a slit-l ike opening in the middle, receptacle in staminate flowers mostly glabrous or very rarely hairy. Carpels 5 or 6, inserted on receptacle, absent in the staminate flowers, ovary 0.8-1.3 mm long, oblong-obovate, glabrous, style lateral, 1-1.3 mm long, lower half light brown, upper half dark purple, stigma ca. 0.2 mm in diameter. Achene oblong-orbicular, smooth, brown, 1.2 mm in diameter.