Perennial, ascending herbs. Rootstock thick and divided. Floral stem 15-40 cm long, ascending, few-flowered at the apex. Leaves 4-5 pinnate, petioles 4-7 cm. long with 4-5 mm. long spreading hairs together with some short hairs. Basal stipules membranous with linear-lanceolate and acuminate auricles, cauline stipules leafy, ovate-lanceolate, entire or 2-3 fid. Leaflets oblong-obovate, deeply divided nearly to the midrib, 3-4.5 cm. long, segments 1-1.3 x 0.2-0.3 cm., oblong obtuse, a little revolute, upper surface sparsely adpressed pilose to glabrescent and green, lower surface dull white floccose tomentose with adpressed pilose hair on the mid-vein. Flowers few, terminal, 1.4-1.9 cm. diam. Calyces sparsely hairy, subequal or inner a little longer, outer ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, inner ovate, acute. Petals 8-9 mm. long, obovate. Stamens about 20. Carpels numerous, styles 1.2-1.4 mm long, uniformely thickened, subterminal.
Type: Described from Sungpau (China) (UPS).
B-8 Kashmir, Ladakh, in wet meadows flowers yellow, O. Koelz 2549 (US), ibid, M.L. Wethen s. n. (K).
Distribution: Kashmir, Nepal and India (Kamaon and Assam).
A rare species collected only from a few localities in northern Kashmir above 3,000 m., found generally in damp places in meadows.
