Aphanes inexspectata

Herb to 10 cm high; stems villous with long spreading hairs. Leaves fan-shaped, usually deeply 5–9-lobed (occasionally the lobes grouped into 3s), 3–8 mm long, 2.5–8 mm wide, white-hairy; stipules usually as long as petiole, 3–5 mm wide, divided almost to midway into c. 8 narrowly ovate lobes, veins usually inconspicuous, hairs long, spreading. Flowers in clusters of 4–6. Sepals 4 or 5, triangular, 0.2–0.4 mm long, less than one-quarter as long as the hypanthium, often glabrous or with short bristly hairs the same length as hypanthium hairs; hypanthium urceolate, hairs white, bristly to slightly spreading, (0.75–)1–1.5 mm long. Fruiting hypanthium lime green to pale yellow-brown. Flowers (Oct.–)Nov.–Jan.(–Mar.).