Delphinium lacostei Danguy in J. Bot. Morot. 21: 50. 1908; Munz in J. Arn. Arb. 18: 486, f. 6H. 1967.

Perennial herbs with slender rootstock; stems 4 - 10 cm high, glabrous or with etrorsely spreading hairs. Leaves several, all radical, more cauline; petioles 2 - 8 cm long, shortly sheathed at base, pubescent; lamina reniform to suborbicular, 2 - 5 cm broad, sparsely pubescent beneath, 3 - 5 -partite for up to 5 - 10 mm from base; segments broadly cuneate-obovate, shallowly 3-lobed and with a few ovate-mucronate teeth at. Apex. Flowers 2 at the apex of stems, blue; bracts leaf-like, trilobed, shortly broad- petioled, slightly hairy; pedicels ca 1 cm long; bracteoles oblong-linear, 5 - 7 mm long, subtending the flower. Sepals glandular and hairy outside; upper sepal ovate, obtuse, 6 x 10 mm; spur straight, 10 - 11 x 5 - 7 mm wide at base, obtuse at tip; lateral sepals ubelliptic, obtuse, ca 14 x 6 mm, pubescent along the middle; lower sepals more or less csymmetric, obtuse, ca 15 x 6 mm. Petals dark, upper petal oblique, with 2 teeth and ong-ciliate apex, ca 10 mm long; spur ca 12 mm long; lower petals obliquely oblong, ca 6 x 2 mm, white-ciliate, yellow-bearded at base; claw ca 6 mm long. Stamens 5 - 6 mm long, glabrous; anthers dark, ca 1.2 mm long. Follicles 4 - 5, glabrous or hairy.

Fl. & Fr. July - Aug.

Distrib. India: Himachal Pradesh.

Pakistan.