新塔翠雀花 xin ta cui que hua

Stem ca. 60 cm tall, puberulent and yellow glandular puberulent distally, simple. Leaf blade ca. 7.5 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 60% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 3-lobulate, distally incised dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate; proximal leaves withered. Raceme 7--10 cm, 8--10-flowered, densely puberulent and yellow glandular puberulent; proximal bracts 3-parted, distal ones undivided, linear. Pedicels 1--1.5 cm; bracteoles distal, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 7 mm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent and sparsely glandular; spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 1.2 cm, straight, base ca. 3 mm in diam.; other sepals ca. 1.3 cm. Petals 2-lobed, glabrous. Staminode limb dolabriform, 2-cleft, yellow barbate. Filaments sparsely pilose. Carpels 3; ovaries densely yellow puberulent. Fl. Jul.

* Slopes; ca. 1800 m. N Xinjiang (Tacheng Xian).