A geophyte 70-140 mm tall when in flower. Tuber: a turnip-shaped or elongated, often moniliform root 15-45 mm long and 8-25 mm in diameter. Leaves: lamina varies from simple, trifoliolate, pinnately divided to irregularly bipinnatifid, cordate to elliptic in outline, 25-70 mm long, pinnae 8-25 mm long, sometimes deeply incised so that segments are laciniate, 1-3 mm wide, apices obtuse, sometimes ending in a single hair, hirsute or sparsely hirsute with long appressed hairs, sometimes glabrous; petiole 25-70 mm long and 1-2 mm in diameter, rigid, erecto-patent, hirsute with short appressed hairs sparsely interspersed with short glandular hairs and stiff non-glandular hairs; stipules subulate, adnate to the petioles for almost their full length, with apices free, 5-15 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, ciliate. Inflorescence: scape 15-30 mm long, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, branched, bearing 2-5 pseudo-umbellets with 4-9(-14) flowers each; peduncles 20-60 mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, hirsute with appressed curly hairs interspersed with long glandular hairs; bracts lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, abaxially hirsute, interspersed with glandular hairs. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long-Hypanthium 28-65 mm long, indumentum as on peduncle, hypanthium/sepal ratio 4.5-7.5. Sepals 5, lanceolate, apices acute, 6-8.5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, posterior one erect, others reflexed, green or pale reddish brown with margins white, indumentum abaxially as on peduncle. Petals 5, cream-coloured of pale yellow; posterior two with wine-red feather-like markings-spathulate, bases cuneate, apices obtuse to rounded or emarginate, 14-22 x 3.2-5.5 mm, length/width ratio smaller than 5; anterior three narrowly spathulate, bases attenuate, apices rounded, 11-18 x 2-4.5 mm. Stamens: staminal column 1-1.5 mm long, white; perfect stamens 5, concealed in the floral sheath, posterior one 2-3 mm long, lateral two 3-4 mm long, anterior two 5-6 mm long, white; staminodes 1-2 mm long; anthers pink, 1.5-2 mm long, pollen orange. Gynoecium: ovary 2-4 mm long; style 0.2-2 mm long, pink; stigma branches 1-1.5 mm long, wine-red. Fruit: bases of mericarps 4-6 mm long, with glandular hairs, tails 25-26 mm long.
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Tuberous geophyte, up to 140 mm tall. Leaves dry at flowering, simple (when juvenile) to bipinnatifid, up to 70 mm long, with segments 1-3 mm wide, usually hirsute. Flowers in 2-5 clusters on a branched peduncle, 4-6(-14) in each, subsessile, petals 5, cream to pale yellow, upper 2 with small wine-red markings, 14-22 mm long, hypanthium 28-65 mm long.
Tuberous geophyte to 14 cm. Leaves simple to bipinnatifid, to 7 cm long with segments 1-3 mm wide. Flowers to 14 on branching peduncles, ± 20 mm diam., cream-yellow, subsessile; hypanthium 28-65 mm long.
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