Delphinium vestitum Wallich ex Royle, Illus. Bot. Himal. 55. 1834; Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 26. 1872. D. vestitum var. sphenolobum Bruehl ex Huth in Bot. Jahrb. 20: 415. 1895.

Erect herbs, rootstocks slender; stems 40 - 100 cm high with long spreading deflexed hairs. Leaves mostly basal with hairy petioles, up to 25 cm long; lamina suborbicular, and toothed, hairy on both surfaces. Flowers in long dense racemes. Sepals purplish blue or pale violet; spur as long as sepals, 15 - 20 x 5 - 7 mm long. Petals black, bearded. Stamens ca 8 mm long, glabrous. Follicles 3, hairy. Seeds narrowly winged, not squamate.

Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Oct.

Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, 2000 - 4000 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Notes. See Lauener (in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 38: 125 - 128. 1980) for discusssions on typification.