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138. Phyllolobium Fischer in Sprengel, Novi Provent. 33. 1818.

膨果豆属 peng guo dou shu

Authors: Langran Xu, Mingli Zhang & Dietrich Podlech

Perennial herbs with mostly well-developed stems, with basifixed hairs. Stipules free from petiole and from each other, very rarely shortly connate behind stem. Racemes several, with a distinct peduncle; bracts persistent. Bracteoles present or more rarely absent. Calyx campanulate. Standard wide, mostly suborbicular to transversely elliptic, with a very short claw, emarginate at apex; keel and wing petals not interlocking due to absence of bosses on keel and matching sockets on wings. Style with a brush of straight, rigid, short hairs just below glabrous stigma. Legumes 1-locular or incompletely to completely 2-locular.

Twenty-two species: mostly in China, a small number in the Himalayas and one in Tajikistan; 21 species (17 endemic) in China.


1 Plants with slender stems up to 90 cm, at least in lower 1/2 with long, horizontally spreading lateral branches; hairs slender, 0.1-0.4 mm.   8 P. eutrichus
+ Stems mostly shorter, without horizontally spreading lateral branches, if sometimes as long as above, then with other kinds of hair   (2)
       
2 (1) Plants in all parts covered with bladderlike, scalelike hairs up to 0.1 mm.   4 P. chinense
+ Plants at least at calyx with slender, longer, not bladderlike hairs   (3)
       
3 (2) Petals yellow, rarely with violet-tipped keel   (4)
+ Petals blue or violet, rarely yellow at base only   (6)
       
4 (3) Plants 30-75 cm tall; calyx 7-12 mm, teeth 4-9 mm; keel as long as wings.   5 P. dolichochaete
+ Plants 10-50 cm tall; calyx up to 10 mm, teeth up to 6 mm; keel longer than wings   (5)
       
5 (4) Leaflets in 7-13 pairs, 5-16 × 1-4 mm, distinctly more than 2 × as long as wide; peduncles 3-11 cm.   9 P. flavovirens
+ Leaflets in 4-10 pairs, 5-10 × 2.5-5 mm, ca. 2 × as long as wide; peduncles 1.5-4 cm.   2 P. camptodontum
       
6 (3) Plants at least in part with spreading hairs   (7)
+ Plants with appressed to ascending hairs only   (11)
       
7 (6) Calyx 8-10 mm, white hairy, teeth 4.5-6 mm; standard 15-19 mm; legumes with a stipe ca. 5 mm, 25-30 mm, 2-locular.   21 P. turgidocarpum
+ Calyx shorter, white and black hairy, teeth mostly shorter; standard 7-13 mm; legumes with a stipe up to 3 mm or subsessile, up to 20 mm, 1-locular   (8)
       
8 (7) Leaflets 8-20 mm; bracts 8-10 mm; calyx 7-8 mm, with teeth 4-5 mm.   12 P. lineariauriferum
+ Leaflets distinctly smaller; bracts at most up to 4 mm; calyx up to 6 mm with shorter teeth   (9)
       
9 (8) Stipules 2.5-4.5 mm; leaflets 3-15 mm; bracts 1.5-4 mm; bracteoles 0.5-2 mm; calyx teeth 1.5-4 mm; legumes 5-6.5 mm high and wide.   20 P. tribulifolium
+ Stipules up to 2.5 mm; leaflets 2-6 mm; bracts up to 2 mm; bracteoles mostly absent, if present, then ca. 0.3 mm (in P. milingense); calyx teeth up to 2.5 mm; legumes either much higher than wide or much wider than high   (10)
       
10 (9) Stems with appressed hairs; leaflets loosely to rather densely hairy adaxially; bracts 1.5-2 mm; legumes 15-20 mm, 8-12 mm high, strongly compressed laterally, without beak.   10 P. heydei
+ Stems with partly spreading hairs; leaflets glabrous to subglabrous adaxially; bracts 0.6-1 mm; legumes 10-15 mm, 2.5-3 mm high and 5-7 mm wide, with a short beak.   13 P. milingense
       
11 (6) Leaflets on both surfaces loosely to densely hairy   (12)
+ Leaflets adaxially glabrous or rarely sparsely hairy   (13)
       
12 (11) Stipules 2-3 mm; bracts 4-6 mm, with spreading hairs; calyx 7-8 mm, covered with spreading white and dark brown hairs.   3 P. chapmanianum
+ Stipules 4-7 mm; bracts 6-10 mm, with appressed to ascending hairs; calyx 9-10 mm, covered with appressed to ascending white and shorter black hairs.   11 P. lasaense
       
13 (11) Standard up to 10 mm; bracts up to 2 mm; bracteoles absent   (14)
+ Standard at least 12 mm; bracts mostly distinctly longer   (16)
       
14 (13) Plants up to 50 cm tall; calyx 7-8 mm; legumes 25-30 mm.   17 P. siccaneum
+ Plants up to 30 cm tall; calyx up to 5.5 mm; legumes up to 13 mm   (15)
       
15 (14) Stem and peduncles loosely to rather densely hairy; leaflets narrowly elliptic, 3-11 × 1-2 mm, acute; keel as long as wings.   15 P. prodigiosum
+ Stem and peduncles glabrous to sparsely hairy; leaflets elliptic, 4-9 × 1.5-4 mm, obtuse; keel distinctly longer than wings.   16 P. sanbilingense
       
16 (13) Stem, rachises, and peduncles glabrous or sparsely hairy; leaflets 10-30 × 3.5-10 mm.   14 P. pastorium
+ Stem, rachises, and peduncles loosely to rather densely hairy, sometimes only sparsely hairy; leaflets up to 12 mm   (17)
       
17 (16) Stem, rachises, and peduncles covered with hairs up to 0.15 mm and also with much shorter, minute, nearly globose hairs; calyx teeth 2.5-3 mm; legumes very shortly acuminate.   7 P. enneaphyllum
+ Stems without minute subglobose hairs; at least longer calyx teeth 3.5-6 mm; legumes with a beak 2-4 mm   (18)
       
18 (17) Stipules 1-3 mm, lower ones completely embracing stem but free from each other; keel shorter than wings.   6 P. donianum
+ Stipules 3-5 mm, lower ones not or up to 1/2 embracing stem; keel longer than wings   (19)
       
19 (18) Plants 20-40(-60) cm tall; racemes 2-7(-9)-flowered; petals violet or in lower part yellow.   1 P. balfourianum
+ Plants 10-25 cm tall; stipules not embracing stem, never reflexed; racemes 1-5-flowered; petals purple or purple-red and standard in middle with a white, purple-striate spot   (20)
       
20 (19) Leaflets narrowly obovate, 2-3 mm wide; bracteoles 2-3(-4) mm; standard purple-red, ca. 16 mm, limb ca. 14 mm wide, transversely elliptic, in middle with a white, purple-striate spot.   19 P. tingriense
+ Leaflets widely obovate, 3.3-6 mm wide; bracteoles absent or up to 1 mm; standard purple, ca. 12 mm, limb ca. 8 mm wide, suborbicular.   18 P. sichuanense

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