Delphinium incisum
(Hook. f. & Thomson) Wallich [Cat. 4717. 1828, nom. nud.]
ex Munz in J. Arn. Arb. 48: 520, f. 9G. 1967. D. elatum L. var. incisum (Hook. f. &
Thomson) Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 26. 1872. D. ranunculifolium Hook.
f. & Thomson var. incisum Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 51. 1855.
Plants up to 1 m high; stems slender, somewhat angled, retrorsely pilose to strigose.
Cauline leaves scattered, pentagonal in outline, 5 -
10 cm wide, somewhat strigose on
both sides, paler beneath, 5-fid nearly to the base; segments somewhat rhombic, 3-lobed
up to below the middle; each lobe incised into a few oblong-mucronate lobules, up to 1
cm long, 1.5 - 3 mm wide; petioles somewhat sheathed at base, up to 10 cm long; the
upper petioles becoming shorter to about almost absent. Inflorescence racemose
few-branched, each branch rather few-flowered, fairly compact; bracts leafy, dissected
or the upper entire, linear-oblong, up to 8 mm long; peclicels erect, ascending, strigose,
mostly 1 -
2 cm long; bracteoles linear-oblong, strigose, 4 -
6 mm long. Sepals bluish,
strigose; upper sepal, ovate, obtuse, 14 -
15 x 11 - 12 mm; spur spreading, decurved, ca
17 mm long, 2 -
3 mm wide at base, blunt; lateral sepals rounded-obovate, ca 13 x 12 mm;
lower sepals ca 13 x 7 mm, subacute. Petals black; upper petal slightly oblique, ca 9 x 2
mm, entire, glabrous; spur ca 16 mm long; lower petals oblong, ca 6 x 3 mm, with 2 short
unequal oblong ciliate lobes, bearded at base; claw ca 6 mm long. Stamens 6 -
8 mm
long, glabrous. Carpels 3, densely pubescent.
Fl. July.
Distrib. India: Uttar Pradesh (Kumaon).
Nepal
Fl. July.
Distrib. India: Uttar Pradesh (Kumaon).
Nepal