Herbs, perennial, 12-18 cm tall, glabrous; stems and petioles of radical leaves tapering to thin underground base. Storage roots fascicled, 2-5 cm × 1.5-2.5 mm, basally attenuate into indistinct stalk. Stems 1 or 2, simple, with 2(or 3) leaves in middle part. Radical leaves few; petiole 4.5-8 cm; blade ovate to narrowly ovate, 2.5-5 × 1.5-3 cm, (bi-)tripinnate; pinnae 3 or 4 pairs, petiolulate; pinnules petiolulate to nearly sessile; ultimate segments lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, mucronate. Cauline leaves bipinnate, like radical leaves, 2-4 × 1.5-2.5 cm, petiolulate to nearly sessile. Raceme 3-4 cm, 10-17-flowered; bracts flabellate, 5-10 mm, with broad cuneate stalk, incised into linear lobes; lower bracts often repeatedly divided, upper bracts less. Pedicel 4-6 mm, possibly recurved in fruit. Sepals white, ca. 1 mm, irregularly deeply and sharply dentate. Petals ?light blue; upper petal rhombic, 12-13 mm, subacute, abaxial crest short, ca. 1.5 mm wide, obtuse; spur straight, conical, ca. 6 mm; nectary ca. 3/5 as long as spur, thin; lower petal rhombic-navicular, 7-8 mm; inner petals 6-7 mm. Ovary with 6 faint vertical ribs, formed by dense small papillae; ovules ca. 8; style 3-3.5 mm. Fruit not seen. Fl. Jul.
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