Herbs, perennial, glaucous, glabrous. Stems few from a stout base with remnants of dead leaf bases, erect, 35-45 cm, with 7-10 leaves scattered along whole length of stem; branches mainly from upper leaves. Petiole 1-7 cm; leaf blade ovate in outline, 3-10 × 1.5-4 cm, pinnate to sub-bipinnate with 3 pairs of broadly ovate leaflets, deeply cut into obtuse, sometimes slightly overlapping lobes 2-5 mm wide; petiolules 1-10 mm (uppermost leaves progressively smaller and shortly stalked). Raceme terminal on main stem and branches (occasionally with a lateral raceme), simple, dense, shortly stalked, 15-40-flowered, to 13 cm in fruiting stage; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2-6 mm. Pedicel 4-9 mm, rather thin. Flowers yellow. Sepals ovate, 2.5-3 × ca. 1.5 mm, shallowly dentate, acute. Upper petal ca. 14 mm, ecristate, apiculate, with very short rounded spur. Stigma: see section description. Capsule (including style) ca. 20 mm, 2-4-seeded, ± constricted between seeds, attenuate apically and terminated by a style ca. 5 mm (seedless narrow apical portion of capsule together with style 7-11 mm). Seeds 1.75-2 mm, strongly keeled, smooth, beaked, with a short elaiosome. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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