Thalictrum rubescens Ohwi

Plants 10--20 cm tall, glabrous. Stems simple or distally shortly branched. Leaves all basal; stipules narrow; petiole 2--6 cm; leaf blade 3-ternate, 3--6 cm; leaflet blade elliptic, ovate-orbicular, or orbicular, 0.5--1 cm, papery, abaxially powdery white, base rounded or obtuse, apex obtuse or subacute, 3-lobed; lobes entire; veins flat on both surfaces. Inflorescence monochasial, 1- or 2 flowered. Pedicel 2--5 cm. Sepals white, narrowly elliptic, 5--6 mm. Anthers yellow, narrowly ovate, apex obtuse. Carpels 30--50; style circinate, ca. 1 mm. Achene stipe 0.3--0.5 mm; body fusiform, compressed, ca. 5 mm; veins ca. 8. Fl. Jun--Jul.

* Wet places at high elevations. N Taiwan.