五果翠雀花 wu guo cui que hua

Stem ca. 35 cm tall, retrorsely puberulent, simple or branched. Leaf blade 4--7 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic, 1 or 2 × dissected, distally lobulate, apex acute; ultimate lobules lanceolate-linear or linear; proximal leaves usually not withered. Raceme ca. 11 cm, ca. 8-flowered, retrorsely puberulent; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear. Pedicels 2--4.2 cm; bracteoles distal, linear-lanceolate, 5--6.5 mm. Sepals blue, abaxially puberulent; spur cylindric-subulate, ca. 1.2 cm, base ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; other sepals ca. 9 mm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb suborbicular, emarginate, yellow barbate. Filaments pilose. Carpels 5, glabrous. Fl. Aug.

* Grassy slopes; ca. 2800 m. N Sichuan (Zoigê Xian).