美叶翠雀花 mei ye cui que hua

Stem ca. 15 cm tall, puberulent, 1-branched. Leaf blade 2.5--4 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic-cuneate, 2- or 3-cleft, distally 3-lobulate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate or lanceolate-linear; proximal leaves usually withered. Corymb ca. 4 cm, ca. 3-flowered; bracts leaflike. Pedicels 2.2--4 cm, densely spreading puberulent; bracteoles distal, leaflike, ca. 1 cm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent, yellowish puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 1.7 cm, base ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.3--1.5 cm. Petals emarginate, glabrous. Staminode limb suboblong, 2-lobed, yellow barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries sparsely puberulent. Fl. Jul.

* Alpine slopes. E Qinghai (Henan Mongol Zu Zizhixian).