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4. Oxytropis sect. Baicalia Steller ex Bunge, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7. 22(1): 135. 1874.

轮叶棘豆组 lun ye ji dou zu

Oxytropis sect. Arenicola C. W. Chang.

Herbs, acaulescent or caulescent, non-glandular (except for glands between leaflets and sometimes on bracts; but glands indicated for Oxytropis myriophylla, O. lanata, and O. bicolor). Leaves with leaflets verticillate or verticillate and opposite. Racemes 1- to many flowered; peduncle 3-20 cm. Legume (unknown in O. shanxiensis) sessile or shortly stipitate; body ovoid-oblong, ovoid, or globose, 1-2.5 cm, usually inflated, 1- or ± 2-locular, with 15-35 seeds.

About 40 species: Afghanistan, China, Himalayas, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia (Siberia), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; North America; 15 species (eight endemic) in China.


1 Corolla yellow, yellowish white, or white   (2)
+ Corolla various purplish, bluish, reddish, or violet colors and usually 2-colored (rarely white in O. oxyphylla)   (4)
       
2 (1) Plants to 25 cm tall; leaflets 4-24 mm; beak of corolla keel 1.2-1.8 mm; legume sessile.   15 O. ochrantha
+ Plants to 40 cm tall; beak of corolla keel 1-1.5 mm; legume substipitate or shortly stipitate   (3)
       
3 (2) Leaves 10-19 cm; leaflets 1-3 cm, mostly opposite but some verticillate; bracts longer than calyx; corolla yellow, keel beak ca. 1 mm.   16 O. ochrolongibracteata
+ Leaves 5-8 cm; leaflets 0.4-0.7 cm, mostly verticillate; bracts shorter than calyx; corolla white, keel beak 1-1.5 mm.   17 O. qamdoensis
       
4 (1) Plants with appressed or yellowish glandular trichomes   (5)
+ Plants non-glandular   (7)
       
5 (4) Beak of corolla keel (1.5-)1.8-3.8 mm; leaflets in 12-16(-50) whorls; bracts 8-15 mm.   12 O. myriophylla
+ Beak of corolla keel 1.5-2.5 mm; leaflets in (2 or)3-12 whorls and some or most leaflets merely opposite; bracts 3-10 mm   (6)
       
6 (5) Calyx 0.9-1 cm; herbage non-glandular; legume stipitate.   13 O. trichophora
+ Calyx (1-)1.2-1.7 cm; herbage with appressed yellowish or glandular trichomes; legume sessile.   14 O. bicolor
       
7 (4) Plants caulescent or shortly caulescent (acaulescent in some O. racemosa)   (8)
+ Plants strictly acaulescent   (9)
       
8 (7) Plants shortly caulescent, stems neither diffuse nor much branched; racemes 7-10-flowered; leaves 5-14 cm, with 6-13 whorls of 4-6 leaflets.   21 O. racemosa
+ Plants definitely caulescent, stems diffuse and often much branched; racemes 1-3-flowered; leaves 3-5 cm, with 2-5 whorls of 3 or 4 leaflets.   23 O. ramosissima
       
9 (7) Plants (1.5-)2-6 cm tall; leaves (0.5-)1-5 cm; racemes 1-3-flowered   (10)
+ Plants (3-)5-20(-40) cm tall; leaves (2.5-)3-20(-30) cm; racemes 5-15-flowered or more (few flowered in O. shanxiensis)   (11)
       
10 (9) Leaves (0.5-)1-3 cm, with 6-12 whorls of 4-6 leaflets; corolla standard 1.4-2.2 cm, keel beak 0.5-1.1 mm; plants turf- or cushion-forming.   22 O. chionobia
+ Leaves 3-5 cm, with 2-4 whorls of 3 or 4 leaflets; corolla standard 2.1-3.2 cm, keel beak ca. 2 mm; plants caespitose.   24 O. langshanica
       
11 (9) Leaves of 3 kinds, i.e., with a solitary leaflet, with 7-15 opposite leaflets, and with 3 or 4 whorls of 3 or 4 leaflets each; corolla standard 1.5-1.6 cm.   10 O. shanxiensis
+ Leaves with leaflets in (1-)3-18 whorls or some leaves with leaflets in whorls and others opposite or alternate (if with 3 kinds as above, then plants not from Shandong or Shanxi); corolla standard 1.4-2.5(-3) cm   (12)
       
12 (11) Leaflets in (7-)12-18 whorls; corolla standard (1.4-)1.5-2.5(-3) cm   (13)
+ Leaflets in (1-)3-10 whorls (or not verticillate for some leaves); corolla standard 1.4-1.8(-2.3) cm   (15)
       
13 (12) Corolla standard 2.5-3 cm; legume body 2-2.5 cm.   18 O. przewalskii
+ Corolla standard 2-2.5 cm; legume body 1-1.6 cm   (14)
       
14 (13) Plants 5-8 cm tall; leaves 5-7 cm; calyx lobes ca. 2 mm.   11 O. lanata
+ Plants 11-40 cm tall; leaves (5-)10-30 cm; calyx lobes 3.5-4.5 mm.   12 O. myriophylla
       
15 (12) Calyx (1-)1.2-1.7 cm, lobes (2-)3.5-7 mm; corolla standard 1.4-2.3 cm.   14 O. bicolor
+ Calyx 0.6-1 cm, lobes 1-3.5 mm; corolla standard 1.4-1.8 cm   (16)
       
16 (15) Leaves 3-6 cm; leaflets in 4 or 5 whorls; peduncle 3-5 cm; calyx 8-10 mm.   19 O. pumila
+ Leaves 7-20(-25) cm; leaflets in (1-)3-9 whorls; peduncle 6-11(-19) cm; calyx 6-8.3(-10) mm.   20 O. oxyphylla

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