Subgenus Aconitum
General description:
Helmets hemispherical, crescent-shape or elongated conical, less than in 2,5 times higher than wide; nectaries reaching or not the top of helmet, nectary spurs capitate, semicoiled or bent; seeds seeds with three longitudinal wings, one of which is distinctly more developed or with only one longitudinal wing; leaf lobes incised near 1/2-2/3; erosulate plants with short or elongated apogeotropic, sometimes clinoapogeotropic shoots; tubers spherical with short stolones or napiform.