Stem 28--55 cm, glabrous, branched. Leaf blade 4--9 cm wide, base deeply cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 75% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-parted, distally undivided or 3-lobulate, apex acute; ultimate lobules triangular or lanceolate; proximal leaves withered. Raceme 5--10 cm, 4--6-flowered, glabrous; bracts narrowly linear. Pedicels 2.5--8 cm; bracteoles borne proximally or near middle of pedicel, subulate or subfiliform, 5--7 mm. Sepals purple, abaxially puberulent; spur subulate, 2.3--2.8 cm, base ca. 3 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.6--1.9 cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb narrowly obovate, undivided, yellow barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries densely pubescent. Fl. Jul--Oct.

* Grassy slopes; ca. 3000 m. SW Sichuan (Yuexi Xian), NE Yunnan (Qiaojia Xian).