Herbs, perennial, 20-40 cm tall. Rhizome 1-2 cm, with several coarse roots, producing stolons 5-10 cm × ca. 1.5 mm, laxly branched, sparsely set with fleshy scales or petiolar bases, at 3-10 cm intervals producing new growth with leaf rosette with dense fleshy scales and petiolar bases. Stems 1 or 2 per node, erect, with 1-3 leaves in upper 1/2, sometimes with a long-stalked leaf low on lower part. Radical leaves since long withered at flowering nodes; petiole 4-7 cm; blade glaucous especially abaxially, 1-2 × 1-3 cm, ternate; leaflets shortly stalked, deeply ternatisect; lobes obovate, entire to shallowly cut into obtuse mucronate lobules. Cauline leaves progressively smaller and less divided upward, shortly stalked to sessile, 2-4 × 3-4 cm, ternate; leaflets shallowly to deeply once to twice ternatisect into obovate obtuse lobes. Racemes 8-12-flowered, 3-4 cm; lower bracts like upper leaf, upper oblanceolate, 5-12 mm, entire. Pedicel erect, 8-20 mm. Sepals small or up to 4 × 3 mm, deeply lacerate-dentate. Corolla blue with purplish tint at spur; inner petals white. Outer petals broad, dentate, long mucronate, dorsal crest short, 1-2 mm wide, dentate; upper petal 27-28 mm; spur slightly downcurved, cylindric, ca. 14 mm; nectary ca. 1/2 as long as spur; lower petal with short deeply saccate claw widened to broad rounded dentate long mucronate limb; inner petals ca. 12 mm. Capsule unknown; ovary with 10-15 ovules in basal 1/2; style ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. Jul.
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