Stem 12--22 cm tall, retrorsely puberulent, simple or 1-branched. Leaf blade 16--30 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe linear and undivided, or rhombic and 3-parted nearly to midvein, distally undivided or 1-or 2-lobulate, apex acute; ultimate lobules linear-lanceolate or linear; proximal leaves usually withered. Flower solitary, terminal; pedicel 3--7 cm; bracteoles borne proximally or near middle of pedicel, linear, 0.9--2.5 cm. Sepals blue, abaxially puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, 1.7--1.9 cm, base 3--4 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.7--1.8 cm. Petals emarginate, glabrous. Staminode limb elliptic-obovate, 2-cleft, yellowish barbate. Filaments pilose. Carpels 3; ovaries densely villous. Fl. Jul.
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