15. Vicia japonica A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n.s. 6: 385. 1858.
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Ervum amoenum (Fischer ex Seringe) Trautvetter var. pallidum Trautvetter; Vicia amurensis Oettingen var. pallida Kitagawa; V. japonica var. comosa Boissier; V. japonica var. laxiracemis Ohwi; V. japonica subsp. pallida Voroschilov; V. japonica var. pallida H. Hara; V. pallida Turczaninow (1842), not Hooker & Arnott (1833); V. pallida Turczaninow var. japonica (A. Gray) Matsumura; V. woroschilovii N. S. Pavlova.
Herbs perennial, 60-120 cm tall. Stem climbing or trailing, yellow-white hairy at first, later glabrescent. Leaves paripinnate, 5-15 cm; stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, 5-7 × ca. 1 mm, margin toothed; leaflets 5-8-paired, not markedly discolorous, lanceolate-ovate to ovate or elliptic, rarely narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, 10-30 × 6-14 mm, abaxially puberulent, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse and retuse, mucronate; lateral veins sparsely 7-9-paired; tendril 2- or 3-branched. Raceme subequaling or slightly longer than leaf, 7-15-flowered, villous; bracts absent. Calyx campanulate, unequally toothed, villous. Corolla blue or purple; standard oblong, 10-14 mm, subequaling wings and longer than keel, apex retuse. Ovary linear, 6-12 mm; ovules 2-7. Legume oblong-rhomboid, 15-25 mm, apex beaked. Seeds 1-3, oblate-spheroid. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep. 2n = 12, 14, 24.
Forest margins, hill slopes, valleys, meadows, riverbanks; 600-3700 m. Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi [Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia (Far East, E Siberia)].