Herbs, perennial, 16-33 cm tall, glabrous. Rhizome short, with small crowded fleshy scales or pale callosities at base. Stems 1 to few, erect, slender, simple, with 1 or 2 leaves in upper 1/3-1/2 (possibly also with 1 or 2 early withering small leaves at base). Radical leaves 1 to few with thin petiole 9-12 cm; blade glaucous abaxially, biternate, ca. 3 × 3 cm; leaflets obovate, entire to shallowly 3-lobed. Cauline leaves shortly stalked to subsessile, ternate to biternate, 1.5-4 × 2-4 cm; petiolule of lateral primary leaflets 2-5 mm; petiolule of terminal leaflet 5-15 mm; ultimate leaflets broadly obovate, 8-15 mm, ± deeply divided into broad rounded lobes. Raceme lax, 5-7-flowered, only slightly elongating in fruit; lower bract like cauline leaf, upper progressively smaller and less divided. Pedicel thin, erect, 6-10 mm in flower, in fruit to 10-15 mm. Sepals 0.5-1 × 0.5-1 mm, large dentate. Corolla probably blue or pale purple. Outer petals subacute, without crest; upper petal 18-19 mm, spur straight or slightly downcurved, narrowly cylindric, 9-10 mm; nectary not recorded; inner petals 9-10 mm. Stigma subcuneate at base (without basal lobes) with 4 marginal apical simple papillae; geminate papillae 1 pair. Capsule linear, 13-18 mm, 5-13-seeded; style ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun.
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