Russia Flora: Plant, up to 0.9 (1.2) m tall. Root crown mostly multiple-headed, up to 2 cm thick. Stems erect or geniculate, slightly branched. Leaves 20-50 cm long, 15-45 cm wide, broadly triangular; leaflets 5-10 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, broadly triangular or broadly elliptical, 2-3 times divided, drawn out to a point, serrate-dentate, mostly broadly cuneate at base, pubescent on lower side, mainly along veins, with sparsely placed spreading hairs. Inflorescence 4-10 cm long, up to 3.5 cm in diameter, extending to 10-20 cm in fruit. Pedicels 1.5-3 cm long. Flowers 5-9 mm in diameter, white. Sepals rounded-ovate, early deciduous. Staminodial petals up to 4 mm long, spatulate, narrowed at base. Fruit about 7-8 mm long, 6 mm wide, globose-ovoid. Seeds up to 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, broadly elliptical, pitted-reticulate, brown. 2n = 16 (Sokolovskaya, 1966). (Table II).

Distribution: Lower Zeya, Bureya, Ussuri (Fig. 9). - In mixed coniferous-broadleaved and deciduous forests, at forest edges, in understory, also in river floodplains, among shrubs. V-VII. - General distribution: Tibet, Himalayas, Japanese-Chinese. - Described from India.