帕米尔山竹子 pa mi er shan zhu zi

Hedysarum krassnowii B. Fedtschenko, Bull. Herb. Bois­sier, sér. 2, 4: 916. 1904.

Shrublets, 60-100 cm tall. Stems erect, many branched, internodes short. Stipules brown, lanceolate, basally connate. Leaves 9-20 cm, 15-31-foliolate; leaflet blades elliptic to al­most orbicular, 3-9 × 3-7 mm, abaxially slightly unevenly seri­ceous, adaxially glabrous, base subrounded to slightly cuneate, apex obtuse to slightly emarginate. Racemes lax, 6-16-flow­ered; peduncle ca. 2 × as long as leaves. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Ca­lyx teeth almost as long as tube. Corolla purple, 1.1-1.8 cm; standard obovate, apex emarginate; wings narrowly lanceolate, to almost 2 × as long as keel; keel almost semiorbicular to ob­long, shorter than standard. Legume sericeous; articles 1 or 2, 4-7 × 4-6 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul.

Mountain slopes, roadsides; 2100-3000 m. W Xinjiang (Pamir Shan) [?Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan].