Herbs, perennial, (10-)20-30 cm tall, glabrous. Rhizome horizontal, 3-7 cm, with coarse long roots and remnants of petiolar bases, apically with leaf rosette. Stems suberect, simple, with 2-5 leaves. Radical and lower cauline leaves: petiole 7-15 cm; blade glaucous abaxially, 2.5-4 × 2-4 cm, ternate to biternate; leaflets deeply much divided into oblanceolate acute lobes. Upper cauline leaves small, 1-1.5 cm, sessile, grading into lower bracts, biternatisect to palmatisect with larger median lobe. Raceme 12-20-flowered, dense, subsecund, 5-7 cm; lower bracts like upper leaves, middle and upper bracts narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6-9 mm, entire. Pedicel 8-13 mm, thin. Sepals 1-1.5 × ca. 0.5 mm, slightly dentate. Corolla blue, inner petals whitish, darker at tip. Outer petals acute to shortly acuminate, without crest; upper petal 19-21 mm; spur straight, cylindric, 9-10 mm; nectary ca. 3/5 as long as spur, thin; lower petal 11-12 mm, limb ovate, margin dentate, claw narrow with small subbasal pouch; inner petals 10-12 mm. Stigma square; marginal simple papillae: median 2 distinct, lateral diffuse; geminate papillae lateral and on basal lobes. Fruit not seen; ovules ca. 9; style ca. 4 mm. Fl. Jul-Aug.
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