Herbs perennial. Stems numerous, 20--30 cm, procumbent, slightly branched or unbranched, subglabrous, leafy. Stem leaves alternate; petiole ca. 1 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, 1--3 cm, slightly hispid, pinnatisect; segments 6--8 pairs, lanceolate, pinnatifid, apex acute. Flowers remotely arranged; bracts leaflike, nearly as long as flowers. Pedicel ± curved, slender, ca. 2 cm. Calyx ± spathelike, cleft to middle of tube anteriorly; tube ca. 5 mm, membranous; lobes 5, equal, apex flabellate, 3--6 mm. Corolla purple, small; tube shorter than calyx; galea erect, strongly curved apically, longer than tube, with a pair of teeth at throat; beak horizontal, 5--6 mm, slender; lower lip ca. as long as galea, ca. 7 mm X 1.5 cm, middle lobe rounded. Filaments villous.
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