镱锂翠雀花 yi li cui que hua

Stem ca. 40 cm tall, sparsely hirsute, simple. Leaf blade 5--6 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 60% of blade radius; central lobe broadly rhombic or rhombic-obovate, 3-lobulate, distally few dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate; proximal leaves not withered. Raceme 22--28 cm, ca. 12-flowered, hispid, simple or branched; bracts linear-lanceolate. Pedicels 2--5 cm; bracteoles distal, linear-lanceolate, 4--6 mm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, 1.3--1.5 cm, decurved, base ca. 2 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.3--1.4 cm × 5--8 mm. Petals 2-lobed, glabrous. Staminode limb orbicular-ovate, ca. 4 mm, 2-cleft, yellowish barbate, ciliate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries distally densely puberulent. Fl. Aug.

* Near streams on slopes; ca. 3600 m. SW Xinjiang (Akto Xian).