Caulis e radice tuberosa exsurgens, erectus, simplex, striatus, pubescens vel glabrescens, foliatus, 12-30 cm altus. Folia inferiora approximata, petiolata (petiolis 5-20 mm longis), reliqua passim sessilia, lamina in ambitu ovata vel oblonga, 20-40 x 10-20 mm, pinnati-partita usque pinnati-fida, segmentis anguste linearibus vel lanceolatis, pauci-dentatis vel iterum lobatis, superior sensim minor et 3-5-lobata aut obtusi-dentata vel (var.) 3-5-inciso-lobata (segmentis triangularibus acutis) vel plano-lobata tantum. Flores in racemo terminali, denso vel sublaxo, multifloro dispositi. Bracteae plus minusve digitato-partitae, floribus breviores. Pedicelli c. 3 mm longi, puberuli, bibracteolati. Calycis tubus turbinatus vel campanulatus, subhirtus vel glaber; lobi calycis anguste triangulares, integerrimi, glabri, erecti, 3-4 mm longi. Corolla 8-13 mm longa, glabra, bilabiata: labium superius trifidum, inferius bipetalum, partes extremae loborum lanceolatae, subrevolutae. Stamina 6 mm longa: filamenta pubescentia, ad basin dilatata et cohaerentia; antherae angusti-oblongae, 2 mm longae, 2 earum in connectivo dorsali brevi-pilosae, 3 glabrae vel (var.) omnes glabrae. Stylus staminibus brevior, glaber, apice obliquo-capitatus, pilosus, stigmate demum brevi-bilobum. Semina (immatura) videntur complanato-ovalia, anguste alata, c. 1.3 mm longa.
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Glabrescent, tuberous geophyte to 30 cm. Leaves mostly basal but grading into bracts, palmatisect, sometimes palmatifid, paler beneath, margins slightly revolute. Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes, showy, bilabiate, laterally slit, white to mauve, 8-13 mm long, stamens ± 6 mm long, 2 anthers bearded.
A herb with a tuber. It grows 30 cm tall. The leaves are mostly near the base. They are divided. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches.
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