Herbs, perennial, 30-40 cm tall, glabrous. Rhizome with apical leaf rosette from large bulb formed by very fleshy scales and petiolar bases 15-25 × 15-20 mm. Stems axillary from last year’s bulb scales, erect, simple or branched, with 2 or 3 scattered leaves. Rosette leaves large (earliest smaller but early withering); petiole 10-18 cm; blade green, triangular, 6-9 × 4-9 cm, bi-to triternate; pinnae petiolulate; pinnules petiolulate or nearly sessile, much divided into ovate to oblong mucronate lobules. Cauline leaves like rosette leaves. Raceme very dense in early stage, ca. 10-flowered; bracts 10-20 mm, deeply palmatisect. Pedicel erect, straight, 8-10 mm (young raceme). Sepals 6-8 × 4-5 mm, much dentate. Flowers purple; outer petals with broad slightly undulate margins, shortly acuminate, with short broad (ca. 3 mm) crest overtopping apex; upper petal ca. 30 mm; spur arcuately downcurved, conical, attenuate to narrow tip, ca. 15 mm; nectary ca. 2/3 as long as spur; lower petal very shallowly saccate in middle part, base constricted into short claw; inner petals 13-14 mm. Ovary with 27 ovules; stigma square; marginal papillae: median 2 distinct, lateral ones confluent; geminate papillae lateral and in basal corners; style ca. 3 mm. Fruit unknown.
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