竟生黄耆 jing sheng huang qi

Plants 2-6 cm tall. Stems ascending to erect, appressed hairy or nearly glabrous. Leaves 1.5-3 cm, subsessile; stipules 1-2 mm; leaflets in 4-7 pairs, elliptic to obovate, 2-3 × ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially densely and adaxially sparsely appressed hairy, rounded to retuse. Racemes 3-6-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 cm; bracts sparsely hairy. Calyx 3-4 mm, with appressed black hairs; teeth 1.5-2 mm. Petals pale yellowish; standard elliptic, ca. 10 × 5 mm; wings ca. 9 mm; keel ca. 8 mm. Ovary subses­sile, linear, glabrous. Legumes unknown.

● About 4200 m. NW Yunnan (Zhongdian).