Herbs, perennial or biennial, with simple or branched slightly fleshy taproot crowned by small leaf scars, a leaf rosette, and 2 or 3 stems. Main stems 30-50 cm, thin, with 3 or 4(-6) leaves, diffusely branched especially above; branch below raceme continuing lead of shoot, displacing terminal raceme to a pseudolateral position. Lower cauline leaves: petiole 7-12 cm; blade ca. 9 × 8 cm, biternate; primary leaflets long stalked, secondary ones shortly stalked; upper leaves smaller; leaflets broadly obovate, shallowly cut into acute lobes, strongly glaucous, very finely and densely papillose abaxially. Racemes 5-10-flowered, leaf-opposed; bracts shorter than pedicels, shortly stalked, obovate, lower bracts divided with lateral lobes; upper ones progressively smaller, uppermost entire. Pedicel 7-12 mm. Flowers unknown. Fruit linear, 15-20 × ca. 1 mm, 10-20-seeded; style ca. 3 mm. Seeds ca. 1 mm, with rounded obtuse back; caruncle prominent.
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