紫雀花 zi que hua

Stems prostrate to ascending, 10-20 cm, tubers lacking. Stipules 4-5 mm, membranous, entire, free; petiole 8-15 cm, slender, pubescent; petiolule less than 1 mm; leaflets 8-20 × 10-20 mm, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base narrowly cuneate, margins entire or minutely serrate. Inflorescence umbellate; peduncle longer than or equal to petiole; pedicels 5-10 mm; flow­ers 1-3. Calyx 6-9 mm, pubescent. Corolla blue or purple, rarely white or pink, ca. 20 mm; standard 1.4-2 cm, claw 3-5 mm; wings falcate-oblong, auricle 2-4 mm; keel abruptly in­flexed, acute. Legume linear-ovate, 20-25 × 3-4 mm. Seeds 8-12, ca. 2 × 1 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov.

Thickets, woodland margins, grasslands, roadsides; 1800-3000 m. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, N Thailand, Vietnam].