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  Inner side of calyx tube hairy in upper 1/2 | 
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  Inner side of calyx tube glabrous | 
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  (3) | 
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  | 2 (1) | 
  Petals yellow; leaflets in 3-7 pairs, narrowly to widely elliptic; keel as long as standard. | 
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  40 A. tongolensis | 
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  Petals purplish; leaflets in 2-4 pairs, narrowly elliptic; keel distinctly shorter than standard, (12-)15-16 mm. | 
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  30 A. moellendorffii | 
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  | 3 (1) | 
  Ovary and legumes glabrous | 
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  (4) | 
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  Ovary and legumes hairy | 
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  (8) | 
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  | 4 (3) | 
  Leaflets in (1 or)2 pairs; calyx 4-5 mm, teeth indistinct or up to 0.3 mm; standard 8-10 mm; keel longer than wings. | 
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  24 A. henryi | 
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  Leaflets in at least 3 pairs but mostly more; calyx at least 5 mm but mostly distinctly longer; standard at least 13 mm but mostly longer; keel shorter than or as long as wings | 
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  (5) | 
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  | 5 (4) | 
  Leaf rachis sparsely to loosely covered with appressed to spreading hairs; leaflets in 8-12 pairs. | 
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  32 A. mongholicus | 
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  Leaf rachis glabrous; leaflets in 3-5 pairs | 
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  (6) | 
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  | 6 (5) | 
  Calyx 11-12 mm, sparsely to loosely covered with ± spreading brown or blackish hairs; bracts sparsely to loosely white and black hairy; standard limb widely ovate to orbicular, 13-16 mm wide; legumes 30-40(-50) mm, inflated ellipsoid. | 
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  17 A. bahrakianus | 
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  Calyx at most up to 11 mm but mostly shorter, glabrous or appressed white hairy; bracts glabrous or only white hairy; standard limb rhombic to elliptic, up to 12 mm wide; legumes 20-30 mm, strongly compressed laterally (unknown in A. sichuanensis) | 
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  (7) | 
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  | 7 (6) | 
  Racemes 6-16 cm, many flowered; bracts glabrous or sparsely ciliate; calyx 6-8 mm, often glabrous; ovary with a stipe 6-8 mm. | 
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  15 A. aksuensis | 
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  Racemes short, 5-10-flowered; bracts densely appressed hairy; calyx 9-11 mm, teeth very short to mostly inconspicuous; ovary with a stipe 12-14 mm. | 
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  38 A. sichuanensis | 
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  | 8 (3) | 
  Stems in lower 1/3-1/2 without developed leaves. | 
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  36 A. przewalskii | 
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  Steams leafy throughout | 
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  (9) | 
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  | 9 (8) | 
  Leaflets in 8-15 pairs | 
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  (10) | 
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  Leaflets in up to 9 pairs but often in fewer | 
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  (14) | 
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  | 10 (9) | 
  Leaflets very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 10-17(-20) × 2-6 mm; calyx when young with long white or black hairs, therefore racemes sericeous, with age loosely to rather densely and mostly black hairy; standard 12-13 × 4-4.5 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, deeply incised. | 
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  22 A. floridulus | 
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  Leaflets relatively wider; calyx without long white or black hairs and not sericeous when young; standard elliptic to obovate, if narrowly oblong-elliptic, then rounded (in A. degensis) | 
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  (11) | 
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  | 11 (10) | 
  Leaflets adaxially sparsely and abaxially loosely hairy; petals dark purple to blackish violet; stem up to 7 mm thick. | 
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  35 A. petrovii | 
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  Leaflets adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely hairy; petals yellow or rarely pale lilac or purple; stem up to 3 mm thick | 
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  (12) | 
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  | 12 (11) | 
  Calyx ca. 5 mm, white hairy; standard ca. 8 mm; legumes shortly stipitate, densely white hairy. | 
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  18 A. changduensis | 
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  Calyx mostly distinctly longer; standard distinctly longer, at least 11 mm; legumes with a stipe at least 4 mm but mostly longer, ± black hairy | 
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  (13) | 
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  | 13 (12) | 
  Plants in vegetative parts furnished with appressed to spreading hairs 1-1.5(-2) mm; leaflets rounded to emarginate; calyx teeth 0.5-1.5 mm; standard 13-20 × 7-9 mm, widely elliptic, emarginate, at base with a long claw; legumes obliquely ellipsoid, 2-3 cm. | 
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  32 A. mongholicus | 
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  Plants in vegetative parts furnished with appressed hairs 0.3-0.6 mm; leaflets acute to emarginate but with a distinct cusp ca. 0.5 mm; calyx teeth ca. 3 mm; standard 11-13 × ca. 5 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rounded at apex, abruptly contracted into a very short claw; legumes ellipsoid, 1.3-1.7 cm. | 
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  20 A. degensis | 
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  | 14 (9) | 
  Plants totally glabrous with exception of inner side of calyx teeth; rachis at insertion of leaflets often with simple or divided emergences and or with stalked glands; stamen tube monadelphous. | 
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  41 A. xitaibaicus | 
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  Plants at least in some parts hairy; rachis at insertion without emergences and glands; stamen tube diadelphous or monadelphous | 
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  (15) | 
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  | 15 (14) | 
  Lower stipules distinctly vaginate-connate; calyx 1-1.4 cm, teeth 4-7(-8) mm; petals yellow, sometimes violet suffused when dry. | 
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  27 A. longilobus | 
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  All stipules free; calyx and calyx teeth distinctly shorter | 
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  (16) | 
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  | 16 (15) | 
  Standard 10-12 mm | 
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  (17) | 
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  Standard distinctly longer, if only 10-12 mm, then stamens monadelphous | 
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  (19) | 
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  | 17 (16) | 
  Leaflets glabrous or ciliate; calyx glabrous; petals yellow. | 
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  19 A. chilienshanensis | 
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  Leaflets and calyx hairy; petals at least partly purple or bluish | 
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  | 18 (17) | 
  Stem ca. 2 mm thick; leaflets adaxially glabrous; bracts sparsely black hairy; calyx 4.5-5 mm; petals blue to blue-violet with yellowish base. | 
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  33 A. muliensis | 
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  Stem ca. 6 mm thick; leaflets adaxially sparsely hairy; bracts glabrous or sparsely white ciliate; calyx ca. 6 mm; petals yellow with purple-tipped standard or keel or all purplish. | 
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  29 A. minhensis | 
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  | 19 (16) | 
  Leaflets 10-17 × 3-7 mm; bracteoles 0.5-1 mm, at pedicel; calyx 4(-5) mm; petals lilac to dark purple. | 
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  37 A. purpurinus | 
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  Leaflets at least in part distinctly longer; bracteoles absent (only in A. arnoldianus sometimes present); calyx at least 5 mm but mostly distinctly longer; petals yellow when alive, sometimes purple when dry | 
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  | 20 (19) | 
  Bracts 3-5 mm; stems glabrous or with appressed hairs | 
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  (21) | 
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  Bracts at least 5 mm but partly distinctly longer, if sometimes only ca. 4 mm (in A. lessertioides), then stems with ascending to spreading hairs | 
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  | 21 (20) | 
  Calyx hairy only at upper margins and teeth, teeth 2-3 mm; stipules 1-1.6 cm, auricle-like dilated at base; leaflets in 6-9 pairs, abaxially sparsely hairy at midrib or glabrous; peduncle glabrous. | 
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  21 A. ernestii | 
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  Calyx hairy also at tube, teeth only up to 1.5 mm; stipules up to 1 cm, not dilated at base, lower ones often connate around petiole up to top; leaflets in 4-6 pairs, abaxially loosely hairy; peduncle loosely hairy | 
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  | 22 (21) | 
  Plants in vegetative parts with mainly black hairs; lower stipules often connate around petiole up to top; calyx ca. 9 mm; standard 16-19 mm. | 
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  16 A. arnoldianus | 
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  Plants in vegetative parts with mainly white hairs; all stipules free from each other; calyx 6-7 mm; standard 12-14 mm. | 
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  28 A. luteolus | 
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  | 23 (20) | 
  Stamen tube closed, monadelphous | 
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  Stamen tube diadelphous, with 1 free stamen | 
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  | 24 (23) | 
  Leaflets glabrous or ciliate when young; racemes with flowers all around, rachis densely black hairy; calyx teeth unequal, upper ones triangular, 1-1.5 mm, lower ones narrowly triangular 1.5-3 mm; standard 16-17 × 8-11 mm, with short claw. | 
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  34 A. neomonodelphus | 
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  Leaflets sparsely hairy abaxially; racemes 1-sided, rachis sparsely white or black hairy; calyx teeth all subulate, 3-4 mm; standard 12-13 × 5-6 mm, with long claw. | 
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  31 A. monadelphus | 
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  | 25 (23) | 
  Calyx 4.5-7 mm with glabrous tube, teeth narrowly triangular-acuminate, 1.5-3 mm; petals yellow drying to brown-violet; standard 11-12 mm. | 
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  26 A. lessertioides | 
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  Calyx longer with tube hairy at least in upper part, teeth triangular, up to 1.5 mm; petals remaining yellow; standard distinctly longer | 
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  | 26 (25) | 
  Stems and leaf rachis sparsely to loosely covered with subappressed to ascending hairs; legumes with white and black hairs. | 
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  25 A. lepsensis | 
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  Stems and leaf rachis glabrous or more rarely very sparsely appressed hairy; legumes with black hairs only | 
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  (27) | 
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  | 27 (26) | 
  Peduncle sparsely, toward raceme more densely, black hairy, rarely subglabrous; standard 14-17 mm; legumes 1-2.5 cm, flattened dorsally and ventrally. | 
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  23 A. frigidus | 
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  Peduncle glabrous; standard 15-25 mm; legumes 2.5-4.5 cm, slightly keeled ventrally, slightly grooved dorsally. | 
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  39 A. tecti-mundi |