假刻叶紫堇 jia ke ye zi jin

Herbs, ?biennial, 20-40 cm tall. Stems many from base, suberect, leafy and branched throughout. Leaves scattered; petiole 2-10 cm (upper shorter, lower longer), at base with membranous sheath (sheath of upper leaves more rounded to auriculate); blade glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, 2-6 × 2-5 cm, unequally biternate; primary leaflets shortly petiolate; secondary leaflets entire to ± 3-cleft, cuneate at base, deeply dentate to divided into narrowly oblong mucronate teeth or lobes. Raceme 5-13-flowered, soon lax; lowest bract leaflike, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm, shortly petiolate, ternate with dentate leaflets; upper 5-8 mm, cuneate, much flabellately to pectinately divided. Pedicel ca. 5 mm in flower, at fruiting 8-15 mm. Sepals 1-3 × 1-1.5 mm, deeply laciniate-dentate. Corolla light blue. Outer petals ± dentate, rounded to shortly mucronate, with short dentate crest not reaching apex (often lacking on upper petal); upper petal 15-19 mm; spur slightly upturned, conical, 9-11 mm; nectary ca. 1/5 as long as spur; lower petal ca. 10 mm, almost straight; inner petals 8-9 mm. Stigma deeply cleft with 8 distinct simple marginal papillae; geminate papillae lateral (clearly submarginal/laminal) and on well-developed basal lobes. Capsule narrowly elliptic to obovoid, 7-11 × 2.5-3 mm, 3-10-seeded; style ca. 2 mm. Seeds in 2 rows, ca. 1.7 mm, smooth; caruncle narrow, adhering to seed. Fl. and fr. Apr-May.

● Slopes; 1100-1900 m. E Gansu (Tianshui), W Shaanxi (Meixian, Xi’an).