Herbs perennial, scapose, with well-developed branched caudex; multicellular glandular trichomes sometimes mixed with simple ones to 2 mm. Basal leaves rosulate, persistent; petiole (1-)1.5-3(-4) cm, ciliate, expanded at base; leaf blade oblanceolate or oblong, (0.8-)1.2-4(-5) cm × 3-10(-15) mm, sparsely to densely glandular, pilose or glabrous, base cuneate or attenuate, margin pinnatipartite or pinnatisect, with up to 12, oblong or ovate lobes, or sinuate-dentate, dentate, repand, or entire, apex obtuse. Cauline leaves absent. Flowers solitary, arising from rosette. Fruiting pedicels (1-)1.5-3(-4) cm, densely glandular or subglabrous, sometimes also pilose. Sepals purplish, linear-oblong, (6-)7-9(-10) × 1-1.5 mm. Petals purple, broadly obovate or obcordate, (1.5-)1.7-2(-2.3) cm × 6-8 mm, emarginate or subrounded at apex; claw 0.9-1.2 cm. Filaments 6-10 mm; anthers narrowly oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm. Fruit linear-cylindric, 2-3 cm × 1.5-2 mm, corky, strongly torulose, with 8-12 constrictions on each side, glabrescent; style 4-7 mm. Seeds brown, oblong, 1.2-1.5 × 0.7-1 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep.
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