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Densely white-woolly or silvery-silky plant 5-10cm tall with a stout rhizome. Leaves rhomboidal to fan-shaped in outline, about 3cm across on thick, flat petioles 5-9cm long, often partly buried in scree. The blades are three to five-lobed to halfway or deeply crenate, the divisions obtuse and rounded. Pedicels more or less the same length as the petioles, terminate in solitary blooms (in the females rarely two). Flowers 2-3cm across with five to eight oblong-obovate unequally-lobed sepals and ten to twenty elliptic blunt petals. Spring. The female flower produces numerous hairy achenes. Argentina and Chile, Andean southern Patagonia from 600-1600m in feldmark, scree and other open stony places. [Pl.212]
