地科黄耆 di ke huang qi

Plants acaulescent, 1.5-2 cm tall, subglabrous in vegeta­tive parts. Leaves 1-1.5 cm, subsessile, glabrous or leaflets with a few white hairs up to 0.4 mm; stipules 3-4 mm, adnate to petiole for 1.5-2 mm, vaginate-connate behind stem for 1-2 mm, toward apex and at margins with white and black hairs up to 0.3 mm; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 3-5 × 1-1.5 mm, apex obtuse. Racemes short, densely 4- or 5-flowered; peduncle inconspicuous, up to 3 mm, densely covered with sub­appressed to slightly ascending black hairs ca. 0.3 mm; bracts 3-4 mm, rather densely hairy like peduncle. Calyx 3-4 mm, rather densely covered with flexuous black hairs up to 0.3 mm; teeth 1.5-2 mm. Petals blue-violet; standard elliptic, ca. 10 × 6 mm; wings ca. 9 mm; keel ca. 5 mm. Ovary sessile, glabrous. Legumes unknown.

● About 4800 m. W Sichuan.