Perennial; rhizome vertical or oblique, slender, bearing rosette of leaves, flowers and sometimes stems at apex. Stems, when present, up to 3 cm, rooted at terminal node. Leaves ½-1½ by ¾-1½ cm, about as long as broad, triangular-ovate, broadly and shallowly cordate at base, obtuse, rarely acute, crenulate or serrate-crenate, pubescent in crenations above, glabrous beneath, herbaceous; petiole 1-4 cm, slender, glabrous. Stipules 3-5 by c. 1 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, fimbrio-dentate, fuscous or greenish, slightly adnate to petiole. Flowers 7-11½ mm, whitish with purple veins; peduncle 3-9 cm, slender, glabrous. Sepals c. 3 by c. 1 mm, lanceolate, acute, glabrous or ciliate near base, sparingly denticulate on margin; appendage c. 1 mm, dentate. Petals 2-2½ times as long as broad; basal obovate, shorter than others; laterals oblanceolate, bearded; spur 1½-2½ mm, exceeding calycine appendages, cylindrical, obtuse. Style c. 1½ mm, geniculate at base, clavate distally, apex with margins fused behind and stigmatic beak projecting anteriorally. Capsule c. 6 mm, globose, glabrous.
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