This species is said to differ from Aquilegia chitralensis in having leaf-sgments divided above the middle and 3-lobed bract. However, I could not examine the type of the taxon (Baluchistan: Sibi District: Kotal near Ziarat, Muqarrab Shah & Waliur-Rehman 1262 (ISL). (Date of collection: 25.5.1979). It is rather surprising that the type of Aquilegia chitralensis, bears 25.5.1979 as the date of collection while the journal (Pak. Syst.) appeared in 1978. Obviously at least one of the dates is wrong.