Ranunculaceae

C. hohenackeri (Boiss.) Grossh., Fl. Kavk. 2: 101 (1930). Syn: Delphinium hohenackeri Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 85 (1867)! Aconitopsis hohenackeri (Boiss.) Kem.-Nath. inTrudilnst. Bot. Tbilisi 6: 125 (1940)! I?: Flora Gruzia 4: t. 134(1948). Figure 1, p. 127. Map 20, p. 121.
Plant up to 50 cm, adpressed pubescent or glabrescent, ultimate branches rather slender. Leaf laciniae linear, acute. Flowers lilac-blue (eventually drying yellowish), 18-25 mm. Corolla 5-lobed; upper lobe shortly bifid or entire, ± equal and approximate to the very obtuse intermediate lobes; lateral (lower) lobes oblique, broad, obtuse, separated from the intermediate lobes by a wide sinus; spur apex circinately involute. Follicle semi-obovate, 7-9 x 3-4 mm, apex sub-gibbous, abruptly rostrate. Fl. 6-8. Dry slopes, fields, 900-1600 m.
Syntypes: [Turkey] prope Erzeroum, Calvert (G! E!); Baibout (Bayburt), Bourgeau (G! E! K!); Cappadocia ad Euphratem, Aucher 65 (G! K!); [Azerbaijan], prov. Talysch, Hohenacker.
N.E. Anatolia. A7 Gümüşane: Gümüşane, 1000 m, Balls 1441A! A8 Gümü-şane: Mt. Ceok nr. Bayburt, Bourgeau 7! Erzurum: Tortum G., 1100 m, Stn. & Hend. 6092! Çoruh: Lomaschennr. Artvin, Andronakai 178! A9 Çoruh: Ardanuç to Kordevan Da., 900 m, D. 30076!
Transcaucasia, N., N.W. & W. Iran. Ir-.Tur. element. Apparently darker-flowered than its allies.