Aconitum refractum (Finet & Gagnep.) Hand.-Mazz.

After publication of the treatment for the FOC, this taxon was lectotypified by LUO Yan & YANG Qiner (Acta Phytotax. Sin. 43 (4): 372-375. 2005).

Caudex unknown. Stem ca. 1.5 m, many branched below inflorescence, glabrous or apically sparsely retrorse pubescent, with leaves equally arranged along stem. Middle cauline leaves slightly long petiolate; petiole ca. 3 cm, sparsely retrorse pubescent; leaf blade pentagonal, ca. 10 × 14 cm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially sparsely appressed pubescent, base shallowly cordate, 3-sect or -parted nearly to 2.5 mm from base; central segment narrowly ovate-rhombic or narrowly rhombic, margin 2--4-dentate; lateral segments unequally 2-parted nearly to base. Inflorescence terminal, to 55 cm, many flowered; rachis and pedicels densely retrorse and appressed pubescent; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear or narrowly linear. Pedicels 1.2--5 cm, oblique upward, apex slightly curved, with 2 bracteoles below middle or nearly to base; bracteoles linear-subulate, 2.5--3 mm. Sepals blue, abaxially sparsely pubescent; lower sepals ca. 1 cm; lateral sepals 1.2--1.5 cm; upper sepal navicular, 1.2--1.6 cm high, 1.3--1.6 cm from base to beak, lower margin oblique upward, curved. Petals pubescent above; lip ca. 4 mm, slightly concave; spur incurved, ca. 1 mm. Stamens glabrous; filaments entire. Carpels 3, glabrous or pubescent. Fl. Sep.

* Grassy slopes. W Sichuan, E Xizang (Qamdo Xian).

Aconitum napellus Linnaeus var. refractum Finet & Gagnepain, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 51: 513. 1904; A. angustisegmentum W. T. Wang.