Anemone raui Goel & Bhatt in J. Bombay Nat. Hist Soc. 79: 641 - 643, ff. 1 - 7. 1982.

Herbs, erect, 50 - 75 cm high; stems 30 - 50 cm long, eovered with fibrous remains of petioles at base, glabrous, villous at involucral joints. Radical leaves palmately 3-lobed, deeply cordate, 9 - 20 cm across, subglabrous, chiefly hairy on nerves; segments sessile, unequally broadly obovate, deeply or shallowly 3-partite, cuneate, 5 - 10 x 4.5 - 9 cm; secondary segments again 3-lobed, irregularly coarsely serrate; petioles 12 - 32 cm long, narrowly sheathing at base. Inflorescences lax, dichasial cymes; involucres of the first order 2, sessile, 3 - 5 x 4 - 6 cm, broadly obovate, cuneate, subglabrous, hairy on nerves on both surfaces; segments trifid, cuneate, irregularly serrate; involucres of the second order and above smaller, 1.5 - 3 cm long; peduncles 5 - 15 cm long; pedicels 2.5 - 8 cm long; median pedicels smaller, slightly puberulous to pubescent above. Sepals 5, narrow- ly obovate, 9 - 15 x 4 - 6 mm, white, glabrous. Stamens 20 - 35; filaments 1.5 - 3 mm long, complanate to filiform, unequal; anthers 0.8 - 1.2 mm long; outer linear-elliptic, inner broadly ovate. Carpels 3 - 6, sessile, 3 - 3.5 mm long, glabrous, compressed, linear-ovate; style gently curved, tapering into obtuse stigmatic apex. Achenes 1 - 4, elliptic-ovate, flattened, 5 - 7 x 3 - 4 mm; beak slightly curved, contiguous to achene, narrowly winged; seeds flat, 5 - 6 x 2.5 mm, broadly lanceolate, dark brown, glabrous.

Fl. & Fr. July - Sept.

Distrib. India: Temperate Himalayan regions, common on grassy slopes and near streams, 2900 - 3300 m. Uttar Pradesh.

Endemic.