Herbs, perennial. Tuber oblong, 2-4 cm. Stems 5-10 cm, branched, with 2-4 leaves, underground pale part with 2 scale leaves. Leaves long petiolate, vaginate at base; blade ± glaucous, slightly thick, ternate; leaflets sessile or terminal one petiolulate, deeply 2-or 3-cleft; segments again shallowly bifid to trifid; ultimate segments obovate to elliptic or oblong, apex subobtuse to acute. Racemes not overtopping leaves, densely 1-4-flowered; peduncle 2-4 cm; bracts obovate, 4-6 mm, apex obtuse. Pedicel erect, 2-5 mm. Sepals ca. 1 mm, shallowly dentate. Corolla (not seen, based on original description) whitish or light blue, apex bluish violet; upper petal ca. 1.7 cm, obtuse; spur straight but downcurved at apex, almost 2 × as long as lower petal, slender; lower petal with short acute spurlet, limb obtuse. Stigma with broad apex, rounded-cuneate at base, with 6 apical papillae and 1 pair of small lateral papillae. Capsule 10-12 × 4-5 mm, ca. 10-seeded; style ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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