Low creeping perennial; stems prostrate, rooting at the lower nodes and with procumbent to erect flowering shoots 10–15 cm. tall, glabrous.. Leaves spirally arranged; petiole 4–23 mm. long, slender, glabrous; lamina ovate to ovate-deltoid, 9–33 mm. long, 8–24 mm. broad, the base subtruncate, the apex acuminate, acute, glabrous or with a few hairs on the midrib and lateral veins above; lateral veins 3–5 pairs; margin crenate-dentate.. Inflorescence a 1–3(–4)-flowered subumbellate-raceme; flowers pink with a whitish spur and with white and yellow markings at the base of the lateral united petals.. Peduncle 12–25 mm. long, slender, glabrous, suberect.. Bracts linear-lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm. long, acute, generally 1–several more than the number of flowers in the inflorescence.. Pedicels 7–15 mm. long, slender.. Lateral sepals 2, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm. long, subobtuse.. Lower sepal narrowly navicular, 7–8 mm. long, 2.5 mm. deep, abruptly constricted into a 22–25 mm. long curved filiform spur.. Dorsal petal obcordate, 8–10 mm. long, 11–12 mm. broad, dorsally with a narrow crest.. Lateral united petals 11–14 mm. long; upper petal ± obovate, 8–11 mm. long, 4.5–6.5 mm. broad, entire; lower petal narrowly oval to oval-elliptical, 9.5–12 mm. long, 5–5.5 mm. broad, entire or slightly emarginate at the apex.. Ovary glabrous.. Fruit and seeds unknown.. Fig. 2/6, p. 4.
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