山竹子属 shan zhu zi shu

Authors: Langran Xu & Byoung-Hee Choi

Shrublets. Stems conspicuous. Stipules 2, opposite petiole, scarious, connate or free, deciduous. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflet blades opposite, margin entire. Racemes axillary, lax, many flowered; bracts marcescent or caducous. Bracteoles 2 at base of calyx. Calyx campanulate or obliquely campanulate; teeth 5, unequal or subequal. Corolla purple or pinkish purple, marcescent on mature legumes; standard longer than wings, slightly longer than keel, not turned backward at anthesis; keel with claw longer than half of lamina. Stamens diadelphous (9+1). Ovary sessile, hairy. Legume articulate, divided into several articles, indehiscent, adaxial suture grooved; articles compressed or biconvex, lanate, pubescent, or glabrous, with or without prickles.

Five species: China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia; five species (one endemic) in China.

Lower Taxa

• Corethrodendron fruticosum (Pallas) B. H. Choi & H. Ohashi
• Corethrodendron fruticosum var. fruticosum
• Corethrodendron fruticosum var. mongolicum (Turczan­inow) Turczaninow ex Kitagawa
• Corethrodendron krassnowii (B. Fedtschenko) B. H. Choi & H. Ohashi
• Corethrodendron lignosum (Trautvetter) L. R. Xu & B. H. Choi
• Corethrodendron lignosum var. laeve (Maximowicz) L. R. Xu & B. H. Choi
• Corethrodendron lignosum var. lignosum
• Corethrodendron multijugum (Maximowicz) B. H. Choi & H. Ohashi
• Corethrodendron scoparium (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) Fischer & Basiner