Herbs perennial, ca. 10 cm tall. Roots filiform, ± fusiform, slightly fleshy. Stems usually 3--5 cespitose, ca. 1 cm tall or nearly rudimentary. Basal leaves in a rosette; petiole ca. 1 cm, densely ciliate; leaf blade ovate-oblong to oblong, 1--2.5 cm, abaxially white scurfy, adaxially glabrescent, pinnatisect; segments 4--14 pairs, ovate-oblong, dentate. Flowers axillary. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx ca. 2 cm, densely white villous, 1/2 cleft anteriorly; lobes 5, unequal, leaflike. Corolla yellow, ca. 6.5 cm; tube 5--6.5 cm, pubescent; galea nearly falcate; beak curved to reflexed, 5--6 mm; lower lip usually enveloping galea, 1.5--1.8 X 2.5--3 cm, ciliate. Anterior filament pair pubescent. Fl. Aug, fr. Sep.
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