高山豆属 gao shan dou shu

Authors: Bojian Bao & Anthony R. Brach

Gueldenstaedtia subg. Tibetia Ali, Candollea 18: 140. 1962.

Herbs, perennial. Taproot conical, strong. Stems many from collar, slender, branched, sometimes with adventitious roots. Leaves imparipinnate; stipules brown, ovate or elliptic, membranous, amplexicaul and opposite to leaves; leaflets elliptic, orbicular, or cordate, apex rounded to retuse, rarely bifid. Umbel 1-4-flowered, on axillary peduncles. Calyx brown, upper 2 teeth larger and joined. Corolla usually dark purple, rarely yellow; standard broadly obovate or obcordate, clawed; wings broadly obovate, equal in length to standard; keel oblong or obovate, small. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary cylindric, pilose or glabrous; style rolled inward. Leg­ume cylindric, with many seeds. Seeds reniform, smooth.

About five species: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan; five species (four endemic) in China.

Lower Taxa

• Tibetia forrestii (Ali) P. C. Li
• Tibetia himalaica (Baker) H. P. Tsui
• Tibetia tongolensis (Ulbrich) H. P. Tsui
• Tibetia yadongensis H. P. Tsui
• Tibetia yunnanensis (Franchet) H. P. Tsui
• Tibetia yunnanensis var. coelestis (Diels) X. Y. Zhu
• Tibetia yunnanensis var. yunnanensis