Stem ca. 30 cm tall, glabrous, simple. Leaf blade 4--6 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 60% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-lobulate, distally usually 1-dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules narrowly ovate; proximal leaves usually withered. Raceme ca. 5 cm, ca. 4-flowered; rachis glabrous or subglabrous; most proximal bract leaflike. Pedicels 1--2 cm, proximally glabrous or subglabrous, distally appressed puberulent; bracteoles distal, lanceolate-linear, ca. 5 mm. Sepals blue, abaxially densely appressed puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 2 cm, straight, base ca. 3 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.5--1.8 cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb broadly elliptic, emarginate, yellowish barbate. Filaments ciliolate. Carpels 3; ovaries densely appressed puberulent. Fl. Aug.