Herbs, perennial, glaucous, 8-20(-30) cm tall. Rootstock horizontal, densely set with fleshy rounded petiolar bases. Stems 1-3, suberect, simple, usually with 1 leaf in upper part. Rosette leaves: petiole 6-15 cm, with short fleshy base; blade glaucous on both surfaces, oblong, 8-14 × 4-6 cm (or some leaves much smaller), pinnate to bipinnate with 3-6 pairs of pinnae; pinnae shortly stalked, ovate, 8-20 × 4-10 mm, base cuneate, shallowly pinnatifid with 1-3 pairs of obtuse mucronulate lobes. Cauline leaf like rosette leaves but less divided and subsessile; petiolar base stipulate. Raceme corymbose in early anthesis, soon much elongating, becoming very lax, 3-9-flowered; lower bracts leaflike, pinnate, to 5 × 2 cm; middle bracts smaller, ternate, with shallowly lobed leaflets, 1-3 cm; upper bracts simple. Pedicel erect, thin, 10-40 mm. Sepals not recorded. Petals white to pale pink, with yellow apex; upper petal 30-34 mm, without crest, subobtuse; spur 17-20 mm, to 5 mm wide in middle part, tapering to apex; nectary ca. 1/3 as long as spur; lower petal 16-18 mm, with narrow claw and ovate obtuse limb; inner petals 15-16 mm; stigma oblong, apical 1/3 irregularly sinuate without distinct papillae, lower 1/3 with 1 pair of marginal papillae and geminate papillae lateral and in basal corners. Capsule narrowly lanceolate, 20-25 × 2.5-3 mm, ca. 30-seeded; style ca. 4 mm, swollen below stigma. Seeds ca. 1 mm, with small narrow spreading elaiosome. Fl. and fr. Apr.
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