Japan Flora: Rhizomes rather stout; terminal leaflets broadly obovate or cuneate-orbicular, 15-30 mm. long, 12-25 mm. wide, rounded at apex, broadly cuneate at base, glaucous to green above, prominently glaucous beneath, gla­brous above, with appressed to ascending long soft pubescence beneath especially on the nerves, the petioles long-pubescent; scapes J- to 3-flowered, with appressed to ascending pubes­cence; flowers 15-25 mm. across; stamens about 2 mm. long; receptacles glabrous, ovoid to narrowly ovoid in fruit, about 8 mm. across, the achenes in pits, smooth. June-July. Al­pine regions.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr. and Mount Daisen in Hoki Prov.). Sakhalin.