Herbs perennial, stemless. Rhizome fleshy, robust. Leaves basal, 2-pinnatisect; rachis 20-30 cm, 1-sulcate, puberulent; leaflets 7 or 8 pairs, 3-6 X 2-3 cm, sessile, divided into 3 or 4 segments on each side, puberulent, margin crenate. Scape 30-50(-80) cm, 10-sulcate; raceme 5-8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 1-1.2 cm; bractlets linear to lanceolate, 3-5 mm. Pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1-1.5 cm, 5-veined; lobes triangular, ca. 7 X 8 mm, reflexed mucronate, puberulent. Corolla narrowly funnelform; tube purple outside, ca. 4 cm, ca. 5 mm wide at base, ca. 1.5 cm wide distally; lobes 5, subrounded, purplish, ca. 1.2 cm in diam. Filaments inserted at base of corolla tube. Ovary glabrous. Stigma flabellate. Fruit not known. Fl. Jun.