Thalictrum rutifolium Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 14. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 12. 1872 (as rutaefolium).

Herbs, glabrous; stems 10 - 60 cm high. Leaves pinnately decompound, glaucous; petioles sheathing, auricled; leaflets 3 - 5 mm long, deeply and bluntly lobed; stipels present. Flowers in axillary short racemes or narrow panicles, green. Sepals ovate, ca 2 x 1 mm, greenish. Stamens usually 5; anthers apiculate. Achenes 5, on abruptly deflexed stalks, narrowly ellipsoid, 5 - 6 mm long, 1 - 1.5 mm broad, prominently 7 - 8-ribbed; beak strongly recurved.

Fl. & Fr. June - Aug.

Distrib. India: Himalayas, 3600 - 4500 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim.

Nepal, Bhutan and China (Tibet).