Perennial herb with stems less than 1m tall. Leaves pinnate, with bristles flattened to the wrinkled surface. Flowers with sepals white or pink. Fruit a capsule, small and hard.

WChina

R. aesculifolia Batalin from N China is also summer-flowering and occasionally offered; it has palmate leaves.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Saxifragaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.