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Published In: Illustrations of the Botany ... of the Himalayan Mountains ... 1: 69, pl. 16, f. 1. (Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-August.
Type: Type: Kashmir, Royle (LIV).
Distribution: Distribution: Throughout Himalayas.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Blue Corydalis is a small beautiful plant.
Photo: Corydalis cashmeriana Royle (Photo)
Map Location: B-8 Kashmir: Pahlgam, 3300 m., 27.8.20, R. R. & I.D. Stewart 5860 (RAW); Nafran, 4000 m., R.R. Stewart 12805 (RAW); Kishtawer, Thomson s.n. (K); N.W. Himalaya, Chamba, Sach pass, Silrundi, R.R. Stewart 2526 (RAW).

 

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A small perennial herb, 5-20 (-30) cm tall, simple, with 1-2 cauline leaves and few radical leaves; rootstock tuberous, branched with small bulbous structure above with few sturdy, c. 1 cm in diam. scale leaves and thickened, 2-4 cm long tuberous branches below. Radical leaves few, long stalked, palmately 3 (-5) pinnate, minutely pubescent to almost glabrous, glaucous, 10-15 cm long; pinnae short petiolulate, almost obovate with 3 deep lobes each; each lobe with ± linear, 10-25 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, ultimate lobules or segments; leaf base sheathing. Cauline leaves 1-2, if 2 then subopposite or alternate, above the middle of the stem, subsessile, more deeply lobed or pinnatisect, smaller; all lobules minutely mucronate. Racemes simple, subumbellate, (3-) 5-8-flowered, 2-3 cm long; bracts conspicuously 3-lobed to almost entire, slightly longer to about as long as the pedicels, foliaceous. Flowers sky blue with darker tips, turning pale when dried, 12-20 mm long with spur ± half as long and slightly downcurved. Sepals minute, inconspicuous, c. 1 mm in diam., subentire. Upper petal concave, acute or minutely acuminate. Capsule linear-oblong, 15-18 mm long, 2.5-3 mm broad; pedicels 10-15 mm long, spreading with deflexed fruits; style 3-4 mm long with curved dilated stigma; seeds biseriate, 8-10, c. 1.5 mm in diam.
 
 
 
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