Flora of New Zealand Series

Tufted perennial, 5-25 cm tall; rhizome 0. Lvs ternate; leaflets stalked, 5-10-(25) mm diam., divided to 1/2 way or more into 3 crenate or bluntly toothed lobes, hairy or almost glabrous. Fls 1-3 per stem, (8)-10-15-(18) mm diam.; pedicels long, with silky hairs. Sepals spreading, hairy. Petals 5, yellow, narrowly obovate; nectary single, c. 2 mm from petal base, covered by a small rounded scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 10-15, flattened, glabrous; body broad, (2.5)-3-4 mm long; beak straight or curved, broad, 0.5-1 mm long.

St.: throughout.

Endemic.

Damp sites in tussock and scrub.