Delphinium pseudohamatum W. T. Wang

Stem 11--18 cm tall, sparsely spreading puberulent proximally, glabrous distally, simple. Leaf blade 2--4 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 75% of blade radius; central lobe broadly rhombic or rhombic, 3-lobulate, distally 1-dentate or entire, apex acute; ultimate lobules triangular; proximal leaves not withered. Raceme 3--5 cm, 1- or 2-flowered; rachis glabrous; bracts undivided and linear, or 3-sect. Pedicels ca. 3.5 cm, yellow pilose distally; bracteoles borne near middle of pedicel, linear, ca. 5 mm. Sepals blue, abaxially yellow puberulent; spur subulate, ca. 2.8 cm, nearly straight, base ca. 2 mm in diam.; other sepals ca. 1.7 cm. Petals undivided, sparsely ciliate. Staminode limb broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, undivided, yellow barbate. Filaments pilose distally. Carpels 3; ovaries densely villous. Fl. Sep.

NW Yunnan (Ninglang Yi Zu Zizhixian).

* Alpine meadows; ca. 3800 m.