Delphinium huangzhongense W. T. Wang

Stem 7.5--8.5 cm tall, appressed puberulent, simple. Leaf blade 1--3 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for at least 90% of blade radius; central lobe rhombic to narrowly so, 1--3 × dissected, distally 1--3-lobulate, apex acute; ultimate lobules ± linear; proximal leaves withered or not. Inflorescence ca. 2 cm, 1-flowered; rachis with retrorse, yellowish hairs; proximal bracts leaflike or linear. Pedicels 1.5--3 cm; bracteoles distal, lanceolate, 4--7 mm. Sepals gray-blue, abaxially densely appressed puberulent; spur subulate-cylindric, 5--7 mm, decurved; other sepals 1.25--1.4 cm. Petals undivided, glabrous. Staminode limb obliquely ovate, ca. 3.8 mm, entire, white barbate. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 5; glabrous. Fl. Jul.

W Qinghai (Huangzhong Xian).

* Scrub; ca. 3900 m.