沙地锦鸡儿 sha di jin ji er

Caragana davazamcii var. viridis Y. X. Liou; C. erenensis Y. X. Liou; C. korshinskii Komarov var. davazamcii (Sanchir) Yakovlev.

Shrubs to 1.5 m tall. Leaflets, pedicels, and current-year branchlets with dense trichomes, not glabrescent, glaucous. Old branches brown and glaucous; branchlets bright yellow. Leaves pinnate, 8-18-foliolate; petiole and rachis 2.5-4 cm, caducous; leaflet blades oblong to obovate-lanceolate, 5-10 × 3-6 mm, both surfaces appressed sericeous to pilose, apex rounded. Flowers solitary or 2 in a fascicle. Pedicel 1-2 cm, articulate basally or apically from middle. Calyx tube broadly tubular, 8-10 mm. Corolla yellow, 2-3 cm; standard suborbicular to orbic­ular-ovate, claw short, apex emarginate; wings 1.4-2 cm, claw long, auricle dentiform to narrowly linear and 1-3 mm; keel 0.9-1.4 cm, claw ± as long as limb. Ovary with a carpopodium, glabrous or appressed pilose. Legume linear, 3.5-5 cm, falcate, stipitate, glabrous. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul.

Sandy areas, sand dunes in desert steppes; 300-1000 m. Liaoning, Nei Mongol [Mongolia].