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Delphinium caeruleum Jacquem. ex Cambess.

Description

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Stem 5--80 cm tall, puberulent or pilose, sometimes also with glandular hairs, usually branched. Leaf blade 0.4--12 cm wide, adaxially densely puberulent or velutinous, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic or obovate-rhombic, 1--3 × dissected, distally 1- or 2-lobulate or undivided, apex rounded to acute; ultimate lobules linear, 2--5 mm wide; proximal leaves withered or not. Corymb 5--14 cm, 1--7-flowered, finely puberulent; proximal bracts leaflike or 3-sect, distal ones linear. Pedicels 3.5--8 cm; bracteoles borne near middle of pedicel or distally, lanceolate-linear, 4--10 mm. Sepals purple-blue, rarely white, abaxially puberulent; spur subulate, 1.5--2.8 cm, nearly straight or slightly recurved, base 2--3(--4) mm in diam.; other sepals 1.2--1.9(--2.5) cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb broadly obovate or suborbicular, entire or emarginate, yellow barbate. Filaments glabrous or pilose. Carpels 4 or 5; ovaries puberulent or villous. Fl. (Jun--)Jul--Oct.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 6: 270 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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Himalaya (Kunawar to Bhutan), S.E. Tibet.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Distribution

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Gansu, Qinghai, W Sichuan, NW Yunnan, Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 6: 270 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Elevation Range

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3000-5800 m
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Habitat

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Grassy or gravelly slopes; 2100--5000 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 6: 270 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
original
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eFloras