野决明 ye jue ming

Sophora fabacea Pallas; (in FOC printed volume treated as: Thermopsis lupinoides (Linnaeus) Link; Sophora lupinoides Linnaeus, see comment below).

Perennial herbs, 50-80 cm tall. Stems erect, vertically ridged, apical part white puberulent, basal part glabrescent. Stipules elliptic or ovate, 2-5 × 1.5-3 cm, equaling petiole; leaflets broadly elliptic, 3.5-8 × (2-)2.5-3.5(-4.7) cm, base cu­neate, apex obtuse or acute, terminal one rather longer, broadly lanceolate, white pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Ra­cemes terminal, 5-18(-25) cm, densely pubescent; flowers al­ternate, numerous and scattered; bracts lanceolate, 8-15 mm; pedicels 5-10 mm. Calyx ca. 10 mm, densely appressed pubes­cent. Corolla 2-2.5 cm, petals subequal. Ovary densely silky; ovules 10-14. Legume linear, 3-9(-12) × 0.5-0.8 cm, straight and tapering upward, spreading, sparsely brown hairy. Seed dark brown, reniform, compressed, 3-4 × 2-3 mm. Fl. May-Aug.

Sandy beaches and flood lands of ravines or marine areas. Hei­longjiang, Jilin [Japan, Korea, Russia (Kamchatka, Sakhalin)].

FOC Post-publication correction: Thermopsis lupinoides (Linnaeus) Link (FOC 10: 102) is now correctly named T. fabacea (Pallas) Candolle because conservation of Sophora lupinoides Linnaeus with a conserved type was not recommended by the Committee for Vascular Plants (see Brummitt, Taxon 59: 1271. 2010).