Delphinium kamaonense Huth in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: 33. 1893; Munz in J. Arn. Arb. 48: 521, f. 9, I & J. 1967. D. grandiflorum L. var. kamaonense Huth ex Bruehl & King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 5: 98. 1896.

Perennial herbs, with thick rootstock; stems up to 50 cm high, branched, subglabrous, leafy. Lower petioles 3 - 8 cm long, hairy, dilated at base; lamina 2 - 4 cm wide, 5-partite and each lobe 5-fid; each segment cuneate and laciniate ultimately into oblong lobes of 2 - 3 mm wide; upper leaves with 1 - 2 cm long and 1 - 1.5 mm wide linear lobes. Inflorescences open racemes, branching divaricately; upper bracts linear, entire, up to 1 cm long; pedicels much longer than flowers, bibracteolate above the middle; bracteoles linear, 3 - 5 mm long. Sepals deep blue with a dark brown subapical spot, slightly pilose, up to 2 cm long; upper sepal ovate, suborbicular, obtuse, ca 17 x 12 mm; spur straight or slightly curved, 12 - 15 cm long, ca 3.5 mm wide at base; lateral sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 12 - 13 x 8 - 9 mm; lower sepals ca 14 x 7 mm, oblong-ovate. Upper petals light brown, oblique, entire, ca 8 x 3 mm, glabrous; spurs ca 14 mm long; lower petals blue, yellow bearded, obovate, obtuse, bifid at apex, ca 7 mm long; claw ca 5 mm long. Stamens 5 - 6 mm long, glabrous; anthers dark, ca 1 mm long. Follicles densely pilose.

Fl. July - Aug.

Distrib. India: Western Himalayas, 3000 - 4600 m. Uttar Pradesh (Kumaon).

Nepal.