Rhizome unknown. Stems glabrous, smooth. Proximal and middle cauline leaves 2 or 3 × ternate, long petiolate; petiole to 22 cm, subglabrous; leaf blade triangular, to 40 cm wide, both surfaces glabrous; terminal leaflet ovate, 9--15 × 5.5--14.5 cm, slightly leathery, base cordate or subrounded, apex acuminate or acute; lateral leaflets obliquely broadly ovate, smaller than terminal one, 5--9.5 × 4--8.5 cm. Distal cauline leaves ternate. Inflorescence racemose, 4--8-branched, branches 3--14.5 cm; rachis and pedicels densely gray pubescent; bracts subulate, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel 3--4 mm. Flowers small, ca. 4 mm in diam. Sepals 4 or 5, broadly elliptic or obovate-orbicular, 3--4 × 2.5--3.2 mm. Staminodes elliptic, ca. 3.8 × 2.2 mm, 2-lobed at apex. Stamens 4--7 mm; filaments narrowly linear; anthers yellowish, broadly ellipsoid, ca. 0.6 mm. Carpels 3--5(or 6), ca. 1.5 mm, shortly stalked, smooth, glabrous or subglabrous.

Compton et al. (Taxon 47: 593–634. 1998) suggested that this taxon might belong to either Actaea sect. Cimicifuga (Wernischeck) de Candolle or sect. Dichanthera (P. K. Hsiao) J. Compton.

* Mountains. SE Sichuan (Nanchuan Xian).