Ranunculaceae

C. anthoroidea (Boiss.) Schröd. in Abhand. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 4(5): 62 (1909). Syn: Delphinium anthoroideum Boiss. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 16: 369 (1841)!, non sensu Boiss. Fl. Or. 1: 85 (1867); D. acutilobum Turrill in Kew Bull. 1929: 223 (1929)! I?: Hook. Ic. Pl. 32: t. 12 (1930). Figure 1, p. 127. Map 21, p. 121.
Plant 7-45 cm, slender, adpressed-puberulous, much branched. Leaf laciniae linear, acute. Flowers lavender, 18-20 mm. Corolla 5-lobed; the upper lobe short, bifid, shorter than the protruding, narrowly dentiform, intermediate lobes; lateral (lower) lobes ovate, obtuse, separated from the intermediate lobes by a narrow sinus; spur short, circinately involute. Follicle semi-obovate, 8-11 x 3-4 mm, apex rounded, abruptly rostrate. Fl. 7-9. Stony hillsides, fallow fields, 2000 m.
Lectotype: 'Syria', Aucher 65 (G!)
Kurdistan. B9 Van: Van to Gevaş, 15 km from Van, 2000 m, McNeill 724! C10 Hakkari: Zab gorge, 25 miles S of Başkale, 2000 m, D. 23802!
NW. & W. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element. This species has been widely misinterpreted, cf. Davis & Hossain in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 22: 412 (1958).