太原黄耆 tai yuan huang qi

Plants 15-20 cm tall, acaulescent to subacaulescent, caes­pitose, covered with mostly ± medifixed, appressed, white hairs. Leaves 6-11 cm; stipules 4-10 mm, adnate to petiole for 2-4 mm, densely hairy; petiole 2-3.5 cm, like rachis densely covered with hairs 0.8-1 mm; leaflets in 5-7 pairs, 5-12 × 1.5-5 mm, both surfaces rather densely covered with hairs 0.8-1 mm. Racemes globose to ovoid, 3-4 cm, rather densely 5-9-flowered; peduncle 5-12 cm, loosely to densely hairy; bracts 2-3 mm, loosely hairy. Calyx inflated ellipsoid, 12-13 mm, loosely covered with appressed hairs 0.4-1 mm; teeth 3-7 mm. Petals yellowish; standard narrowly oblong-elliptic, 20-22 × ca. 6 mm, apex emarginate; wings 19-20 mm, limbs narrowly ob­long, obliquely emarginate; keel 18-19 mm. Legumes included in calyx, sessile, 7-8 mm, ca. 3 mm high and ca. 2 mm wide, with beak ca. 1 mm, incompletely 2-locular; valves densely covered with asymmetrically bifurcate, tangled, ascending to spreading, white hairs 1-1.5 mm.

● Shaanxi, Shanxi.