深绿黄耆 shen lü huang qi

Plants 30-40 cm tall, sparsely hairy. Stems glabrous or very sparsely covered with subappressed to ascending predomi­nantly black hairs 0.1-0.25 mm. Leaves (3-)5-10 cm, subses­sile or with short petiole; stipules 4-6 mm, behind stem connate in lower 1/2, glabrous or sparsely ciliate; rachis glabrous or hairy like stem but mostly with predominantly white hairs; leaf­lets in 8-12 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 5-13 × 2-6 mm, abaxially sparsely and adaxially very sparsely covered with subappressed hairs 0.5-0.8 mm, apex rounded to widely emarginate. Ra­cemes 2-4 cm, many flowered; peduncle 8-11(-19) cm, sparsely black hairy like stem; bracts 2-3.5 mm, sparsely black hairy. Calyx 4-4.5 mm, densely covered with subappressed black hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; teeth 2-2.5 mm. Petals white, violet tipped; stan­dard widely obovate, 5-7 × 4-4.5 mm; wings 5-6 mm; keel 4.5-5.5 mm. Ovary subsessile, densely appressed predomi­nantly white hairy. Legumes unknown.

● About 3400 m. Sichuan.