滇南崖豆 dian nan ya dou

Trees, 4-6 m tall. Bark gray, rough. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 7- or 9-foliolate; rachis 20-40 cm, including petiole 3.5-8 cm; stipels absent; leaflet blades lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4-20 × 1.3-5 cm, subleathery, abaxially sparsely stri­gose, adaxially glabrous, secondary veins 7-11 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, apex caudate. Pseudoracemes axillary, 4-14 cm; rachis nodes with 1 or 2 flowers. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Flowers 1-1.5 cm. Calyx 5-6 mm, densely yellow pubescent. Corolla white; standard orbicular, without basal calluses or auricles, outside puberulent. Ovary stipitate, villous, with 7-9 ovules. Legume linear, 10-15 × 1.8-2.8 cm, woody, inflated, stipitate, gray tomentose, apex beaked. Seeds 3-5 per legume, narrowly ovoid, 2-2.5 cm. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep-Dec.

● Sparse woodlands; ca. 2000 m. S Yunnan.