暗黄杭子梢 an huang hang zi shao

Lespedeza fulva (Schindler) H. Léveillé.

Shrublets or shrubs. Young branches densely yellowish velutinous. Petiole 0.4-2 cm, densely yellowish velutinous; stipels absent; leaflets narrowly ovate to ovate or narrowly oblong to oblong, terminal one 2.5-5 × 1-2.5 cm, abaxially densely ascending hairy, adaxially with dense very minute spreading hairs (puberulent), base obtuse or rounded, apex ob­tuse and mucronulate. Racemes 6-12 cm, often panicle com­posed of several upper racemes with reduced subtending leaves; rachis with spreading short hairs and glandular hairs; bracts nar­rowly ovate, 2-2.5 mm; bracteoles ca. 1 mm. Pedicels ca. 3 mm, densely shortly ascending hairy mixed with glandular hairs. Calyx with dense appressed short hairs and sparse glan­dular hairs; tube ca. 1.5 mm; lobes narrowly triangular, ca. 2.5 mm. Corolla purple; standard elliptic, 9-9.5 mm, apex obtuse; wings ca. 8 mm, clawed at base; keel ca. 13.2 mm, clawed at base. Ovary ca. 1.5 mm; style incurved, ca. 9.2 mm. Legume obliquely elliptic, shortly appressed hairy.

● SE Yunnan.

This species is known only from the type specimen collected from Mengzi in SE Yunnan.