Pedicularis brachycrania H. L. Li

Herbs biennial or perennial, to 30 cm tall. Roots single, small, not fleshy, slightly robust. Stems numerous, erect, slender, unbranched, glabrous or pilose, internode to 12 cm. Basal leaf petiole 1.5--2 cm. Stem leaves in whorls of 3 or 4; petiole 2--7 mm; leaf blade ovate-oblong, ca. 2.5 X 1.3 cm, membranous, glabrous, pinnatisect or -partite; segments 5 or 6 pairs, ovate-oblong, pinnatifid. Inflorescences racemose, to 10 cm, interrupted basally; bracts ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pinnatisect or pinnatifid. Pedicel 2--3 mm. Calyx broadly ovate, ca. 4 mm, slightly cleft anteriorly, pilose; lobes 5, ± equal, triangular, barely 1 mm, entire or obscurely serrate. Corolla purple, ca. 1.6 cm, glabrous throughout; tube decurved in calyx, erect apically, 8--9 mm; galea ± erect, 3.5--4 mm, rounded in front, margin entire, apex truncate; lower lip 7--8 mm, lobes rounded, margin entire, middle lobe smaller than lateral pair, placed apically. Filaments glabrous. Fl. May.

* Near glacial lakes. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan.

Pedicularis brachycrania là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Cỏ chổi. Loài này được H.L. Li mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1948.

短盔马先蒿（学名：Pedicularis brachycrania）为列当科马先蒿属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的四川、云南等地，生长于海拔4,100米的地区，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。