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.
Fl. & Fr. July - Aug.
Distrib. India: Himachal Pradesh.
Pakistan.