Rootstock stout, woody. Stems (3-) 10-25 cm high, erect or nearly erect, densely pubescent, intermixed with some glandular hairs, Radical leaves biternate, petioles 3-13 cm long, leaflets thickish with short petioles, 5-15 (-20) mm long and wide, obovate to suborbicular, deeply trifid, usually glabrous, green above, pale glaucous beneath. Cauline leaves ternate, much reduced in size. Flowers usually solitary. Sepals dark purple, 22-30 x 12-15 mm, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or obtuse, slightly pubescent. Lamina of petals 10-12 mm long, slightly emarginate. Spurs 3-10 mm long, saccate to curved-elongate, purplish. Stamens very unequal. Staminodes narrowly linear-lanceolate. Carpels 5-6, upto 15 mm long, densely pubescent. Style 6-7 nun long, filiform.