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Inner side of calyx tube hairy in upper 1/2 |
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Inner side of calyx tube glabrous |
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Petals yellow; leaflets in 3-7 pairs, narrowly to widely elliptic; keel as long as standard. |
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40 A. tongolensis |
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Petals purplish; leaflets in 2-4 pairs, narrowly elliptic; keel distinctly shorter than standard, (12-)15-16 mm. |
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30 A. moellendorffii |
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Ovary and legumes glabrous |
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(4) |
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Ovary and legumes hairy |
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4 (3) |
Leaflets in (1 or)2 pairs; calyx 4-5 mm, teeth indistinct or up to 0.3 mm; standard 8-10 mm; keel longer than wings. |
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24 A. henryi |
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Leaflets in at least 3 pairs but mostly more; calyx at least 5 mm but mostly distinctly longer; standard at least 13 mm but mostly longer; keel shorter than or as long as wings |
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5 (4) |
Leaf rachis sparsely to loosely covered with appressed to spreading hairs; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. |
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32 A. mongholicus |
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Leaf rachis glabrous; leaflets in 3-5 pairs |
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6 (5) |
Calyx 11-12 mm, sparsely to loosely covered with ± spreading brown or blackish hairs; bracts sparsely to loosely white and black hairy; standard limb widely ovate to orbicular, 13-16 mm wide; legumes 30-40(-50) mm, inflated ellipsoid. |
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17 A. bahrakianus |
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Calyx at most up to 11 mm but mostly shorter, glabrous or appressed white hairy; bracts glabrous or only white hairy; standard limb rhombic to elliptic, up to 12 mm wide; legumes 20-30 mm, strongly compressed laterally (unknown in A. sichuanensis) |
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7 (6) |
Racemes 6-16 cm, many flowered; bracts glabrous or sparsely ciliate; calyx 6-8 mm, often glabrous; ovary with a stipe 6-8 mm. |
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15 A. aksuensis |
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Racemes short, 5-10-flowered; bracts densely appressed hairy; calyx 9-11 mm, teeth very short to mostly inconspicuous; ovary with a stipe 12-14 mm. |
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38 A. sichuanensis |
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8 (3) |
Stems in lower 1/3-1/2 without developed leaves. |
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36 A. przewalskii |
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Steams leafy throughout |
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9 (8) |
Leaflets in 8-15 pairs |
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Leaflets in up to 9 pairs but often in fewer |
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10 (9) |
Leaflets very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 10-17(-20) × 2-6 mm; calyx when young with long white or black hairs, therefore racemes sericeous, with age loosely to rather densely and mostly black hairy; standard 12-13 × 4-4.5 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, deeply incised. |
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22 A. floridulus |
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Leaflets relatively wider; calyx without long white or black hairs and not sericeous when young; standard elliptic to obovate, if narrowly oblong-elliptic, then rounded (in A. degensis) |
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11 (10) |
Leaflets adaxially sparsely and abaxially loosely hairy; petals dark purple to blackish violet; stem up to 7 mm thick. |
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35 A. petrovii |
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Leaflets adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely hairy; petals yellow or rarely pale lilac or purple; stem up to 3 mm thick |
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12 (11) |
Calyx ca. 5 mm, white hairy; standard ca. 8 mm; legumes shortly stipitate, densely white hairy. |
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18 A. changduensis |
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Calyx mostly distinctly longer; standard distinctly longer, at least 11 mm; legumes with a stipe at least 4 mm but mostly longer, ± black hairy |
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13 (12) |
Plants in vegetative parts furnished with appressed to spreading hairs 1-1.5(-2) mm; leaflets rounded to emarginate; calyx teeth 0.5-1.5 mm; standard 13-20 × 7-9 mm, widely elliptic, emarginate, at base with a long claw; legumes obliquely ellipsoid, 2-3 cm. |
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32 A. mongholicus |
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Plants in vegetative parts furnished with appressed hairs 0.3-0.6 mm; leaflets acute to emarginate but with a distinct cusp ca. 0.5 mm; calyx teeth ca. 3 mm; standard 11-13 × ca. 5 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rounded at apex, abruptly contracted into a very short claw; legumes ellipsoid, 1.3-1.7 cm. |
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20 A. degensis |
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14 (9) |
Plants totally glabrous with exception of inner side of calyx teeth; rachis at insertion of leaflets often with simple or divided emergences and or with stalked glands; stamen tube monadelphous. |
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41 A. xitaibaicus |
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Plants at least in some parts hairy; rachis at insertion without emergences and glands; stamen tube diadelphous or monadelphous |
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15 (14) |
Lower stipules distinctly vaginate-connate; calyx 1-1.4 cm, teeth 4-7(-8) mm; petals yellow, sometimes violet suffused when dry. |
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27 A. longilobus |
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All stipules free; calyx and calyx teeth distinctly shorter |
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16 (15) |
Standard 10-12 mm |
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Standard distinctly longer, if only 10-12 mm, then stamens monadelphous |
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17 (16) |
Leaflets glabrous or ciliate; calyx glabrous; petals yellow. |
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19 A. chilienshanensis |
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Leaflets and calyx hairy; petals at least partly purple or bluish |
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18 (17) |
Stem ca. 2 mm thick; leaflets adaxially glabrous; bracts sparsely black hairy; calyx 4.5-5 mm; petals blue to blue-violet with yellowish base. |
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33 A. muliensis |
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Stem ca. 6 mm thick; leaflets adaxially sparsely hairy; bracts glabrous or sparsely white ciliate; calyx ca. 6 mm; petals yellow with purple-tipped standard or keel or all purplish. |
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29 A. minhensis |
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19 (16) |
Leaflets 10-17 × 3-7 mm; bracteoles 0.5-1 mm, at pedicel; calyx 4(-5) mm; petals lilac to dark purple. |
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37 A. purpurinus |
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Leaflets at least in part distinctly longer; bracteoles absent (only in A. arnoldianus sometimes present); calyx at least 5 mm but mostly distinctly longer; petals yellow when alive, sometimes purple when dry |
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20 (19) |
Bracts 3-5 mm; stems glabrous or with appressed hairs |
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Bracts at least 5 mm but partly distinctly longer, if sometimes only ca. 4 mm (in A. lessertioides), then stems with ascending to spreading hairs |
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21 (20) |
Calyx hairy only at upper margins and teeth, teeth 2-3 mm; stipules 1-1.6 cm, auricle-like dilated at base; leaflets in 6-9 pairs, abaxially sparsely hairy at midrib or glabrous; peduncle glabrous. |
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21 A. ernestii |
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Calyx hairy also at tube, teeth only up to 1.5 mm; stipules up to 1 cm, not dilated at base, lower ones often connate around petiole up to top; leaflets in 4-6 pairs, abaxially loosely hairy; peduncle loosely hairy |
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22 (21) |
Plants in vegetative parts with mainly black hairs; lower stipules often connate around petiole up to top; calyx ca. 9 mm; standard 16-19 mm. |
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16 A. arnoldianus |
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Plants in vegetative parts with mainly white hairs; all stipules free from each other; calyx 6-7 mm; standard 12-14 mm. |
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28 A. luteolus |
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23 (20) |
Stamen tube closed, monadelphous |
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(24) |
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Stamen tube diadelphous, with 1 free stamen |
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24 (23) |
Leaflets glabrous or ciliate when young; racemes with flowers all around, rachis densely black hairy; calyx teeth unequal, upper ones triangular, 1-1.5 mm, lower ones narrowly triangular 1.5-3 mm; standard 16-17 × 8-11 mm, with short claw. |
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34 A. neomonodelphus |
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Leaflets sparsely hairy abaxially; racemes 1-sided, rachis sparsely white or black hairy; calyx teeth all subulate, 3-4 mm; standard 12-13 × 5-6 mm, with long claw. |
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31 A. monadelphus |
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25 (23) |
Calyx 4.5-7 mm with glabrous tube, teeth narrowly triangular-acuminate, 1.5-3 mm; petals yellow drying to brown-violet; standard 11-12 mm. |
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26 A. lessertioides |
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Calyx longer with tube hairy at least in upper part, teeth triangular, up to 1.5 mm; petals remaining yellow; standard distinctly longer |
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26 (25) |
Stems and leaf rachis sparsely to loosely covered with subappressed to ascending hairs; legumes with white and black hairs. |
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25 A. lepsensis |
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Stems and leaf rachis glabrous or more rarely very sparsely appressed hairy; legumes with black hairs only |
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27 (26) |
Peduncle sparsely, toward raceme more densely, black hairy, rarely subglabrous; standard 14-17 mm; legumes 1-2.5 cm, flattened dorsally and ventrally. |
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23 A. frigidus |
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Peduncle glabrous; standard 15-25 mm; legumes 2.5-4.5 cm, slightly keeled ventrally, slightly grooved dorsally. |
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39 A. tecti-mundi |