德钦黄耆 de qin huang qi

Plants at least 35 cm tall (basal parts missing), covered with appressed, mostly ± medifixed, white hairs 0.3-0.5 mm. Stems loosely to rather densely hairy. Leaves 10-16 cm; stipules 6-10 mm, very shortly adnate to petiole, only those of lowest leaves shortly connate behind stem, all others free from each other, loosely to rather densely hairy; petiole 2-2.5 cm, hairy like stem; leaflets in 9-12 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 12-22 × 4-9 mm, abaxially sparsely to loosely hairy, adaxially gla­brous, apex obtuse to rounded. Racemes loosely many flow­ered, elongating in fruit up to 8 cm; peduncle 10-11 cm, hairy like stem; bracts 5-10 mm, loosely to rather densely hairy. Calyx ca. 8 mm, densely to rather densely hairy; teeth unequal, 2-3 mm. Petals pink; standard obovate to elliptic, ca. 13 × 5 mm, apex emarginate; wings ca. 12 mm; keel ca. 10 mm. Leg­umes (unripe) sessile, linear, slightly curved, ca. 15 mm, ca. 3 mm high, with a short, straight beak ca. 2 mm; valves loosely hairy, soon glabrescent.

● About 3300 m. NW Yunnan (Baima Shan).