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3. Apios taiwaniana Hosokawa, J. Soc. Trop. Agric. 4: 310. 1932.

台湾土圞儿 tai wan tu luan er

Herbs, twining, like shrublets. Stems sparsely villous. Leaves pinnately (5 or)7-foliolate; petiole 5-12 cm, glabrous; stipels 1.5-2 mm, hirsute; petiolules ca. 2 mm, with fine downy hairs; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 × 1.5-2.2 cm, both surfaces almost glabrous, base rounded or cuneate, apex obtuse or acuminate, mucronate. Raceme to 15 cm; nodes 3- or 4-flowered. Flowers yellowish light purple, ca. 1.2 cm. Calyx lobes subequal. Standard suborbicular, ca. 1.1 cm; wings nar­rowly oblong; keels extending, inflexed. Ovary shortly veluti­nous; style twisted. Legume not seen.

● 700-1500 m. Taiwan.


 

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