金球黄堇 jin qiu huang jin

Herbs, perennial, forming small cushions, yellowish green, 3-8(-13) cm tall, with taproot. Stems many, red, fleshy, branched, with leaves. Leaves yellowish green, 3-7 cm, long petiolate; petiole flat, 1-3 mm in diam.; blade 1-1.6 × ca. 1 cm, bipinnate; ultimate segments oblong, 1-3 mm, acute. Racemes corymbose, 5-10-flowered; bracts flabellate, 10-17 × 5-10 mm, laciniate to 1/2 way, segment apex long aristate. Pedicel 8-14 mm, erect, in fruit sharply hooked at tip. Flowers bright yellow, keels of outer petals darker greenish purple. Sepals buff-colored, reniform, 0.5-1 × 1-2 mm, with few teeth. Upper petal 11-15 mm, with broad crest overtopping apex; spur straight or slightly downcurved at tip, cylindric or slightly attenuate, 6-8 mm; nectary 1/2-2/3 as long as spur; lower petal 7-8 mm, limb broad, obtuse; claw slightly shorter than limb; inner petals 5-6 mm, claw shorter than limb. Stigma with 6 simple stalked papillae, and often also a geminate papilla on adaxial side, close to style. Capsule 3-5 × 2-2.5 mm, 2-6 seeded; style 3-3.5 mm. Seeds compressed-orbicular, ca. 1.5 mm; caruncle small.

● River sands; (3000-)3800-5500 m. Xizang.