Moderately hairy to glabrescent, often mat-forming perennial; stems rooting at nodes. Leaf-lamina entire, reniform, distinctly discolorous, 4–33 mm across, shallowly 3–7-lobed, margin crenate, upper surface green with prominent veins, usually moderately hairy with short curved hairs, lower surface pale with sunken veins; petiole 0.5–8(–13) cm long; stipules scarious, entire, yellow-white. Umbels simple, leaf-opposed, c. 3.5 mm diam., c. 10–15-flowered; peduncle 1–7 cm long; pedicels to 3.5 mm long. Petals c. 1 mm long, light yellow green, sometimes red-dotted. Fruits 1–1.7 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, apex emarginate, base truncate, prominently ridged. Flowers summer.
EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also NSW. Occurring in alpine and subalpine areas, in woodlands, shrublands and grasslands, usually in moist, shaded sites, amongst rocks, moss or in running water.
Duretto, M.F. (1999). Apiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 256–258. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
