Russia Flora: Plant, up to 30 (35) cm tall. Rhizome thickened, often many-headed, with scales and remnants of dead basal leaves at apex. Stem glabrous in lower part, with reddish-purple tinge, sparsely hairy in upper part, with rosette of 2-4 (5) leaves at base. Leaf blades up to 4 (5) cm long and wide, rounded, twice ternately dissected; their secondary segments three-parted, with narrow-linear terminal lobes up to 2 mm wide. Cauline leaves with petioles 8-12 mm long and blades similar to basal leaves. Peduncles in fruit 1.5-2 times longer than lower part of stem. Flowers solitary, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter. Perianth segments 8-10(12), about 6 mm wide, oval, bluish and spreading-stiff-hairy outside, white and glabrous inside. Nutlets about 4-5 mm long, almost sessile, woolly pubescent with long and relatively soft hairs; style straight in lower third of its length, above slightly sinuous or more or less curved, with hair-like apex protruding beyond fruit pubescence. (Table VII).

Distribution: Aldan (Fig. 19). - In forest (pine-larch) and subalpine belts, in clearings among dwarf pine thickets, on carbonate rock outcrops; rare. - Endemic. - Described from Khabarovsk: "Ayano-Maysky district, vicinity of Aim village, left rocky bank of Maya River, 17 km upstream, Semya creek, sodded slope of southwestern exposure, at altitude about 400 m above sea level, in community with Rhododendron adamsii, Carex macrogyna, beginning of fruiting, scattered. 23 VI 1978. S. S. Kharkevich and V. Yakubov" (type - LE).