普兰翠雀花 pu lan cui que hua

Stem ca. 15 cm tall, puberulent and yellow glandular puberulent, simple. Leaf blade 4--9 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 60% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic-obovate, 3-cleft to middle, distally few dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate-linear or linear; proximal leaves usually not withered. Raceme ca. 6 cm, densely ca. 15-flowered, puberulent and yellow glandular puberulent; bracts leaflike. Pedicels to 2 cm; bracteoles distal, linear, 1.2--2 cm. Sepals deep blue, abaxially pubescent; spur cylindric, 7--8 mm, base ca. 3 mm in diam.; other sepals 1.4--1.5 cm. Petals emarginate, glabrous. Staminode limb obovate, 2-lobed, white barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 3; ovaries sparsely puberulent. Fl. Jul--Aug.

* Gravelly slopes; ca. 5000 m. SW Xizang (Burang Xian).