Herbs, perennial, glaucous. Caudex dryish, thick, much branched, densely set with dry residual petioles and stems. Stems many, 15-30 cm, leafy and branched, especially above. Basal leaves 6-8 cm, long petiolate, simply pinnate or frequently ternate with only 1 pair of lateral leaflets; leaflets thick, often with pale flecks; terminal leaflet large, ca. 1.8 × 1-1.5 cm, petiolulate, base cuneate, apex shallowly 3-fid; segments rounded-obtuse, ± mucronate; lateral leaflets smaller, subsessile, ca. 10 × 7 mm, shallowly 2-or 3-fid. Cauline leaves several, like basal leaves, but smaller. Raceme ca. 10-flowered, dense, several, forming a cluster; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 1 mm, margin scarious, entire, apex shortly acuminate, sometimes lowermost ones herbaceous, lobate. Pedicel ca. 8 mm, at fruiting arcuately decurved. Flowers yellow. Sepals ovate, ca. 3 mm, margin coarsely dentate, apex acuminate. Outer petals navicular, slightly mucronate, without crest; upper petal ca. 14 mm; spur obtuse, 3-4 mm; nectary 1-1.5 mm; lower petal ca. 11 mm, base narrow; inner petals 10-11 mm. Stigma: see section description. Capsule arcuately reflexed, linear, 16-20 mm including style ca. 6 mm. Seeds in 1 row, seeds like in Corydalis krasnovii. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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