Thalictrum rostellatum Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 15. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1: 12. 1872.

Herbs, rigid; stems slender, 50 - 100 cm high. Leaves ternately decompound, 5 - 15 cm across; lower pinnules often with 3leatlets; leaflets mostly suborbicular, with 3 - 5 blunt teeth at apex, 7 - 10 (-15) mm across, crenate, pale and glandular beneath; petiole-base broad and sheathing; leaf segments with ca 1 mm long stipels. Flowers few, terminal or on short lateral shools. Stamens ca 15; anthers acute; filaments filiform. Achenes 5 - 6, sessile, narrowly ellipsoid, ca 3 mm long somewhat compressed, distinctly 6-7-ribbed, tapering to a persistent hooked beak.

Fl. & Fr. June - Aug.

Distrib. India: Himalayas, 2100 - 3000 m, streamsides, margins of pine forests. Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim.

Nepal and Bhutan.