Evergreen to about 40 cm tall. Basal leaves absent; stem leaves with 3 leaflets (the 2 lateral ones asymmetric), thick, veins pale, lower surface purplish pink, marginal teeth, when present, well spaced. Flowers few, in terminal clusters, cup-like or flat, about 3-5 cm wide, hanging at first, becoming more erect, pale green tinged with purple; winter-spring. Carpels mostly 5, fused at the base.
Spain (Majorca)
Hybridises with H. argutifolius to give H. ×”sternii.
Leaves and flowers on same stem; leaflets 3, entire or with widely spaced marginal teeth; lower leaf surface, leaf stalk and flowers suffused with purple.
Yeo (1986).
Source: (1997). Ranunculaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
