黄花鸡爪草 huang hua ji zhua cao

Stems 30--45 cm tall, usually simple. Basal and proximal cauline leaves subglabrous; petiole 7--8.5 cm; leaf blade 2.6--4 × 4.4--5.8 cm; central segment rhombic, 3-fid, lobulate, margin serrate; lateral segments obliquely flabellate, unequally 2-parted. Flowers ca. 3 cm in diam. Sepals yellow, subelliptic, ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous. Stamens ca. 1/2 as long as sepals. Follicles ca. 18, flat, obliquely obovate, ca. 9 × 4.5 mm; persistent style ca. 1 mm; projection absent on abaxial suture. Fl. Jun.

Mountain forests; 2500--3500 m. SE Xizang [Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim].