Low perennial, (5–)6–9 cm. Roots few, spreading, fleshy. Stems ascending, unbranched, glabrous, the margins somewhat winged and hyaline. Basal leaves clustered, blades spreading outwards; petiole 25–40 mm, equalling or longer than lamina, glabrous, flattened; lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 25–45 × 6.5–8.5 mm, acute at apex, glabrous on both surfaces, pinnatisect; segments 10–20 pairs, margins thickened and cartilaginous or callose-cuspidate, ovate-triangular, acute, serrate teeth 3–5. Cauline leaves absent, or 1–2 alternate towards top of stem, similar to radical but smaller. Inflorescence subcapitate, dense, up to 7-flowered; flower opening from base. Bracts lanceolate, obtuse to subacute, 7–10 mm long, irregularly serrate, ± densely white-pilose. Calyx tubular, c. 15 x c. 5 mm; tube c. 5.5 mm long, slightly cleft anteriorly, rather densely white-pilose, hairs thin, long and crisped; teeth 5, the posterior one very small (c. 1.2 mm long), lanceolate, the others ovate, c. 2 mm long, cuspidate-dentate, all crispate-pilose. Corolla c. 20 mm long, pink(?), galea darker than tube and lower lip; tube c. 13 mm long, straight, glabrous; lower lip suberect, dilated, c. 6 × 9 mm, middle lobe orbicular, smaller than laterals, c. 2 × 2 mm, with shallow median notch; lateral lobes broadly orbicular, c. 9 × 5 mm, entire, glabrous on margins; galea perhaps crimson when fresh, c. 8 mm long,  lower part c. 4 mm long, anther-bearing part c. 4 × 4 mm, short bilobed beak c. 1 mm long, the lobes deltoid and each with a deflexed prong. All filaments glabrous; anthers elliptic, subacute at base. Capsule and seeds not known.