Delphinium trisectum W. T. Wang

Stem 30--50 cm tall, retrorsely puberulent, simple or 1-branched. Leaf blade 5--12 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 75% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-cleft, distally few lobulate or dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate; proximal leaves not withered. Raceme 6--20 cm, (5--)10--14-flowered, retrorsely puberulent; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, or linear. Pedicels 2--7.5 cm; bracteoles distal, linear or subulate, 4--7 mm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially appressed puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, 1.6--2.1 cm, base 3--3.5 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.3--1.7 cm. Petals emarginate, glabrous. Staminode limb ovate, 2-lobed, yellowish barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries puberulent. Fl. Apr--May.

W Anhui, S Henan, N Hubei.

* Forest margins; 400--800 m.